Transcript ANGIE WOO Building Climate Resiliency and Adaptation in

Building
Climate Resiliency
& Adaptation
in Healthcare
PHABC Summer School
July 12, 2016
Climate Change Impacts on Health
Dangerous
travelling conditions
Permafrost
melt damaging
infrastructures
Changes in drinking water
quality and quantity
Food security changing animal
distributions
Heat–related
illnesses and
deaths
Psychosocial
impacts from
droughts
Water-borne
diseases from
floods
Respiratory illnesses
from forest fires
Health
impacts
from
more
severe
storms
Expansion of Lyme
Disease vector
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Source: Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare
Climate Change Impacts on Health Programs
Food Safety
Infectious Disease
Management
Mental
Health
Health of
Northern
Populations
Seniors’ Health
3
Sustainable Development
Health care
system capacity
Adaptation
Resilience
Mitigation
Children’s
Environmental
Health
Occupational
Health
Travel Medicine
Air, Water Quality
Emergency
Preparedness
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Source: Canadian Coalition for GreenSeguin,
Healthcare
Resilient Building
...able to mitigate and minimize damage,
provide support and emergency services, and
take advantage of the
post-disaster situation
to improve or facilitate positive change
economically, socially & ecologically
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Resilient Community
- functions well under stress
- successful adaptation
- social capacity & self-reliant
¿Resilience?
(Australian National Strategy
for Disaster Resilience)
Resilient Healthcare
is not an action to be
implemented but rather a
dynamic objective of
investments and reforms.
(World Health Organization)
Resilient Design
“new sustainable design”
Simple, passive, flexible, durable
Locally available, renewable, reclaimed resources
Anticipates interruptions and a dynamic future
Find and promote resilience in nature
Continuous improvement
Resilient Capacity
Built through a process of
empowering citizens,
responders, organizations,
communities, governments,
systems and society
to share responsibility
to keep hazards from
becoming disasters.
(Public Safety Canada)
(Resilient Design Institute)
The capacity of a community,
business, or natural environment
to prevent, withstand, respond
to, and recover from a
disruption.
(US Climate Resilience Toolkit)
Resilient City
Mitigation + adaptation
improves resilience
(capacity to respond) to change
by resisting damage and recovering
quickly, while continuing to function
(City of Vancouver)
If the safety margin
between forecast capacity
and forecast load is
predicted,
then this identifies
potential for future nonfailure conditions.
(Engineers Canada)
Health Canada - June 16, 2016
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Disasters within disasters
– Severity & complexity of emergencies exceed our coping capacity
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Low-grade, cumulative stresses
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Repeated overexposures: morbidity & mortality by a thousand cuts
Newly vulnerable ecosystems and populations
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Large-scale ecological disturbances facilitate emerging diseases
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Integrate mitigation with adaptation & resilience plans
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Use frontline staff to spread climate change messages
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Include health professionals in climate policy & actions
Why: To mobilize health care around the world to protect public health from climate change.
What: 3 pillars in the pledge
● Mitigation – Reduce health care’s own carbon footprint.
● Resilience – Prepare for the impacts of extreme weather and the shifting burden of disease.
● Leadership – Educate staff & public while promoting policies to protect public health from climate change.
Who: 9,000+ hospitals and health centers in 23 countries
● Canada: Lower Mainland HA, University Health Network, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
How: online communities of practice with experts & peers on 10 topics & in 3 languages.
National Health Service (NHS) - England, 2012
➢ For use by “anyone with a modem”
➢ Public health units identify vulnerabilities
within their communities
➢ Develop and implement local mitigation
and adaptation strategies
➢ Raise awareness about health hazards
➢ Reduce public health vulnerabilities
➢ Linked to climate projections
➢ May 2016: Vancouver, Calgary,
Montreal, Toronto
➢ Involves:
○ Chief Resilience Officer
○ City Resilience Strategy
○ Service & Support Platform
○ Peer Network
➢ Focuses:
○ Leadership & Strategy
○ Health & Wellbeing
○ Infrastructure & Environment
+Resilience
Lower Mainland Health Authorities (LMHA)
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Multi-sector collaboration to integrate mitigation with adaptation & resilience plans
– Health Emergency Management BC ((HEM BC) ) + risk management (LMFM)
• resilience assessments of hospitals: climate and seismic risks
• integrate recommended actions and develop new plans
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Include health and healthcare professionals in climate policy & actions
– Federal climate action plan & BC Climate Leadership Plan
• Joint submission with public and population health (FH, VCH)
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Work with executives and frontline staff to spread climate change messages
– “Nut-cracker” approach
– New GreenCare Community: climate resilience & adaptation
Building Physical and Social Resilience On-Site
Calls To Action for the Federal Climate Action Plan:
Chief Medical Officers & GreenCare
Engaging and Mobilizing: “nut-cracker”
What you can do
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Join as participants and partners to integrate mitigation, adaptation & resilience
– Share what’s happening / possible in our GreenCare survey: https://goo.gl/WH1olI
– Develop & implement adaptation plans in our hospitals & cities: public consultations
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Support our calls to action on the Federal and B.C. climate action plans
– letstalkclimateaction.ca
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Connect with our GreenCare Community on climate resilience & adaptation
– bcgreencare.ca
Thank you!
[email protected]
Climate Resiliency & Adaptation