Assessment of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Kiribati

Lachlan McIver, Alistair Woodward, Seren Davies, Tebikau Tibwe and Steven Iddings
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Lachlan McIver: Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Alistair Woodward: School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Seren Davies: Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Bikenibau, Republic of Kiribati
Tebikau Tibwe: Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Bikenibau, Republic of Kiribati
Steven Iddings: Division of Pacific Technical Support, World Health Organization, Suva, Fiji

IJERPH, 2014, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: Kiribati—a low-lying, resource-poor Pacific atoll nation—is one of the most vulnerable countries in the World to the impacts of climate change, including the likely detrimental effects on human health. We describe the preparation of a climate change and health adaptation plan for Kiribati carried out by the World Health Organization and the Kiribati Ministry of Health and Medical Services, including an assessment of risks to health, sources of vulnerability and suggestions for highest priority adaptation responses. This paper identifies advantages and disadvantages in the process that was followed, lays out a future direction of climate change and health adaptation work in Kiribati, and proposes lessons that may be applicable to other small, developing island nations as they prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change on health.

Keywords: climate change; health; adaptation; small island state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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