The emergence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought with it a sharp focus on public health services and health systems as well as shed light on the chronic lack of capacity to manage emerging public health risks. Climate change further exacerbates this challenge. In combination with COVID-19, the climate crisis presents a clear and present risk of disrupting and overwhelming health systems, health care facilities, and the health care staff upon which these systems rely. This risk is of particular concern in those settings with already weak health systems, leadership challenges, insufficient resources, and limited capacities. Despite these concerns, the collective global effort to respond to COVID-19 and recover from it also presents important opportunities for implementing profound cross-cutting efforts within the health sector to tackle both the pandemic and the climate crisis. This report provides a framework that builds on the World Bank’s climate-smart health care approach and integrates the World Bank’s multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) into the global COVID-19 response. It is intended to guide ongoing as well as pipeline activities and investments targeted at the pandemic, with a view to enabling the health sector to leapfrog toward climate-smart universal health coverage (UHC).
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Dorey,Stephen Geoffrey, Rabie,Tamer Samah, Gracheva,Maria E.
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Document Date
2021/10/26
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Document Type
Report
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Report Number
165533
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Volume No
3
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Total Volume(s)
3
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Disclosure Date
2021/10/26
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Executive Summary
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Keywords
Climate Smart; climate-related disaster; climate investment fund; health systems; impact of climate change; risks of climate change; health status of populations; climate-related shock; Nature-Based Solutions; public health; external shock; Energy; health care facility; health care facilities; climate change mitigation; extreme weather event; climate change threat; health facility; climate crisis; health financing mechanism; health care provision; global warming potential; emerging infectious disease; low socioeconomic status; social protection program; risk and vulnerability; climate change challenge; health care system; global greenhouse gas; reductions in mortality; mode of transport; public health risk; loss of life; sustainable health care; health information system
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Dorey,Stephen Geoffrey Rabie,Tamer Samah Gracheva,Maria E.
COVID-19 and Climate-Smart Health Care : Health Sector Opportunities for a Synergistic Response to the COVID-19 and Climate Crises (Vol. 3) : Executive Summary (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/261081635223571363/Executive-Summary