Baumgart, Nick (2022) CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT, INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES’ VULNERABILITY, AND THE PREPAREDNESS OF THE HEALTH SYSTEMS: HOW IS THE WORLD ADAPTING? Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Background: Climate change is one of the greatest health threats facing humanity. The extent of a country’s climate change impacts depends highly on socio-economic vulnerability factors. Health system preparedness mitigates climate change impact, reduces a country's overall vulnerability, and is also under risk itself. The limited research on climate change and health system preparedness often only considers single impacts, countries, or health system segments. Methods: This cross-sectional ecological study investigates (1) the lagged association between climate change impact and health system preparedness after five years in three time periods at country-level worldwide and (2) the association between capacity to face climate change vulnerability and health system preparedness within the same year. A sub-analysis investigates associations of climate change health vulnerability and health system preparedness. The global climate risk index was a proxy variable for climate change impact, and the ND-gain index substituted the capacity to face climate change vulnerability and health-specific vulnerability. The SPAR score was the proxy for health system preparedness. Crude and adjusted linear regressions explored both relationships. Results: Climate change impact and health system preparedness showed no associations after five years. Higher capacity to face climate change vulnerability was significantly associated with higher health system preparedness. The sub-analysis of climate change health vulnerability was significant in the crude, not the adjusted analysis. Conclusion: Health systems seemingly do not adapt to climate change impact even after five years. Simultaneously their reduced capacity to face vulnerability is associated with lower health system preparedness, which is worrying for future impacts.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Gallo, V. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 13:05 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 13:05 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/158 |
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