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Climate change and public health: barriers and levers for implementation of climate adaptation in Europe

BACKGROUND: Climate adaptation policies (to reduce health impacts from climate change) are being implemented across Europe driven by political action, public support, and more extreme weather. All EU countries have national climate adaptation policies but the the role of addressing public health in...

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Autores principales: Turner, G, de’Donato, F, Hoeben, A, Nordeng, Z, Otto, I, Stackpole Dahl, M, Aunan, K, Kovats, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10596497/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.367
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author Turner, G
de’Donato, F
Hoeben, A
Nordeng, Z
Otto, I
Stackpole Dahl, M
Aunan, K
Kovats, S
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de’Donato, F
Hoeben, A
Nordeng, Z
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Aunan, K
Kovats, S
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description BACKGROUND: Climate adaptation policies (to reduce health impacts from climate change) are being implemented across Europe driven by political action, public support, and more extreme weather. All EU countries have national climate adaptation policies but the the role of addressing public health in implementation varies by country and is often undervalued. AIM: Identify key issues in climate adaptation implementation by public health professionals in Europe. METHODS: Key informant interviews were undertaken with decision makers in international, national, and local government across 20 European countries. Participants were recruited if working in public or environmental health, and in climate adaptation policy. Interviews addressed these key themes: barriers, health agenda, levers, networks, evidence needs. Interviews were conducted online, recorded, transcribed, and analysed thematically. RESULTS: 32 interviews were completed between June-October 2021; 4 international, 5 national level and 23 city-level stakeholders. Most reported inadequate resources for health adaptation implementation (funding, training, and personnel) and the marginal role of health in climate adaptation policy development. A clear mandate to act was key for adaptation implementation and resource allocation. A reported challenge was departmental cross-collaboration, and city-level stakeholders’ awareness of the public health role in climate policy. European-level stakeholders reported strength in ability to coordinate expertise to national and regional-level governance partners highlighting the importance of interagency collaboration. CONCLUSIONS: Across Europe, there is varied progress in implementation of climate-health adaptation. Providing appropriate resources, inter-departmental collaboration, training, knowledge mobilisation, and multi-level governance support will facilitate climate and health policy implementation.
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spelling pubmed-105964972023-10-25 Climate change and public health: barriers and levers for implementation of climate adaptation in Europe Turner, G de’Donato, F Hoeben, A Nordeng, Z Otto, I Stackpole Dahl, M Aunan, K Kovats, S Eur J Public Health Parallel Programme BACKGROUND: Climate adaptation policies (to reduce health impacts from climate change) are being implemented across Europe driven by political action, public support, and more extreme weather. All EU countries have national climate adaptation policies but the the role of addressing public health in implementation varies by country and is often undervalued. AIM: Identify key issues in climate adaptation implementation by public health professionals in Europe. METHODS: Key informant interviews were undertaken with decision makers in international, national, and local government across 20 European countries. Participants were recruited if working in public or environmental health, and in climate adaptation policy. Interviews addressed these key themes: barriers, health agenda, levers, networks, evidence needs. Interviews were conducted online, recorded, transcribed, and analysed thematically. RESULTS: 32 interviews were completed between June-October 2021; 4 international, 5 national level and 23 city-level stakeholders. Most reported inadequate resources for health adaptation implementation (funding, training, and personnel) and the marginal role of health in climate adaptation policy development. A clear mandate to act was key for adaptation implementation and resource allocation. A reported challenge was departmental cross-collaboration, and city-level stakeholders’ awareness of the public health role in climate policy. European-level stakeholders reported strength in ability to coordinate expertise to national and regional-level governance partners highlighting the importance of interagency collaboration. CONCLUSIONS: Across Europe, there is varied progress in implementation of climate-health adaptation. Providing appropriate resources, inter-departmental collaboration, training, knowledge mobilisation, and multi-level governance support will facilitate climate and health policy implementation. Oxford University Press 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10596497/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.367 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Climate change and public health: barriers and levers for implementation of climate adaptation in Europe
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