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
1
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3
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2021/10/26
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
COVID-19 and Climate-Smart Health Care : Health Sector Opportunities for a Synergistic Response to the COVID-19 and Climate Crises
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Keywords
Climate Smart; disaster risk reduction and management council; climate-related disaster; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; global health; early warning system; impact of climate change; climate co-benefits; stress of climate change; climate-related hazard; access to health care; participation of government official; Climate Adaptation and Mitigation; consequence of climate change; disease surveillance and control; low levels of access; panel for climate change; global greenhouse gas emission; Nature-Based Solutions; threat of climate change; access to basic service; health care facilities; health care facility; health systems; emerging infectious disease; extreme weather event; country case study; surveillance system; disease surveillance system; public health surveillance; infectious disease outbreak; Health Care Waste; climate investment fund; million people; multilateral development bank; public health risk; climate crisis
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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 (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/736871635222977110/COVID-19-and-Climate-Smart-Health-Care-Health-Sector-Opportunities-for-a-Synergistic-Response-to-the-COVID-19-and-Climate-Crises