{"id":8996,"date":"2025-02-20T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=8996"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:47:48","slug":"making-health-systems-more-climate-resilient","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/publications\/making-health-systems-more-climate-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Health Systems More Climate-Resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section section--core \"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12 col-md-8 offset-md-2 block-wrapper\"><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Climate change is impacting health in numerous ways, including illness and death from extreme weather events, such as heat waves, storms and floods, which are increasingly frequent. Besides such catastrophic events, climate change also leads to severe changes in the spread of infectious diseases, mental health issues and the disruption of food systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-1536x1166.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia-58x44.jpg 58w, https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-Health-Ethiopia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This freshwater tank was purchased by Dida Yabello Health Center from the PBF subsidies it earned based on performance (Borena, Ethiopia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change also undermines many social determinants for good health, such as livelihoods, equality and access to healthcare and social support structures. These climate-sensitive health risks are disproportionately felt by women, children, the elderly, ethnic minorities, poor communities, migrants or displaced persons and those with underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cordaid strives to create climate-resilient health systems. We do so by working with health service providers, communities, and local and national authorities in an accountable, transparent and holistic manner. <strong>Learn how we do it:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Climate-and-Health-Brochure-Digital.pdf\">Download and read the capacity statement<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8997,"template":"","tags":[],"topic_tax":[34,16,9],"country_tax":[62],"class_list":["post-8996","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic_tax-climate","topic_tax-cordaid","topic_tax-health-care","country_tax-multicountry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making Health Systems More Climate-Resilient - Cordaid International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cordaid.org\/en\/publications\/making-health-systems-more-climate-resilient\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making Health Systems More Climate-Resilient - Cordaid International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Climate change is impacting health in numerous ways, including illness and death from extreme weather events, such as heat waves, storms and floods, which are increasingly frequent. 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