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Exacerbating Health Risks in India due to Climate Change: Rethinking Approach to Health Service Provision

Exacerbating Health Risks in India due to Climate Change: Rethinking Approach to Health Service Provision

Joyashree Roy, Duke Ghosh, Kuheli Mukhopadhyay, Anupa Ghosh
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781522516743|ISBN10: 1522516743|EISBN13: 9781522516750
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1674-3.ch051
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Roy, Joyashree, et al. "Exacerbating Health Risks in India due to Climate Change: Rethinking Approach to Health Service Provision." Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1102-1127. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1674-3.ch051

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Roy, J., Ghosh, D., Mukhopadhyay, K., & Ghosh, A. (2017). Exacerbating Health Risks in India due to Climate Change: Rethinking Approach to Health Service Provision. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1102-1127). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1674-3.ch051

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Roy, Joyashree, et al. "Exacerbating Health Risks in India due to Climate Change: Rethinking Approach to Health Service Provision." In Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1102-1127. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1674-3.ch051

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Abstract

While climate change is expected to exacerbate human health risks, it also provides an excellent opportunity for defining and implementing preventive actions. Developing nations like India, with low infrastructure facilities, limited resources, varied development priorities and, often with large population, are particularly vulnerable to health impacts - more so under the climate change regime. The greatest challenge facing the current Indian health service provisioning system is that it has to cater to the health service needs of its large population within a short time and with sustainable impact. Limited health ‘cure infrastructure' (low per capita availability of doctor, hospital beds, etc.), lack of qualified health practitioners, absence of a strong monitoring system in disease surveillance and rising cost of ‘cure infrastructure' are some of the major drawbacks of the existing system in India. There is therefore, a need for mainstreaming more preventive measures which will enhance human health resilience and make the population less exposed and more resilient to the predicted impacts of climate change. To provide preventive care to the Indian population, a paradigm shift in strategy is required. The new regime needs to emphasize on an integration of ‘traditional preventive health care systems' with modern cure targeted pharmaceuticals and non-health sector interventions. Such a system is expected to reduce the long term demand for cure infrastructure and will provide a more holistic inclusive solution to the Indian problems.

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