Climate change on public health in Bangaldesh and one health issue related to climate change in Bangladesh
• Give an overview of major climate change issues (risks and impacts) in your selected country, considering past, current and prospective situations.
• Identify what climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies and policies have been developed in the country. Give a critical review of them.
• Select ONE public health issue that you think it is a major issue related climate change in your selected country. Describe the epidemiology of the selected public health issue (e.g. how many people are affected, who are the most vulnerable). Discuss the impact of climate change on this health issue (e.g. the potential change in epidemiological distribution of the issue due to climate change).
• Propose key recommendations about what the country should do in order to prevent and reduce the burden from the selected public health issue related to climate change.
Being a low-lying river delta with a long coastline and floodplains that occupy 80 percent of the country, Bangladesh`s extreme vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change is well documented. But, climate change in Bangladesh is not just about cyclones and floods. Changing and erratic weather pattern have also affected the physical and mental health of the people. The climate change in Bangladesh have started to impact health with an increase in respiratory diseases, mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, along with deteriorating mental health conditions. Bangladesh has experienced an average rise in temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius between 1976 and 2019. The increase in maximum temperatures during this period has been shown to be consistent on a month-to-month basis, with the months from February to November getting warmer.
Section I: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Introduction The country is encountering a basic deficiency of medical care suppliers, a lack that is supposed to increment in the following five years, similarly as the biggest populace in our country’s set of experiences arrives at the age when expanded clinical consideration is vital (Pike, 2002). Staffing of emergency clinics, facilities, and nursing homes is more basic than any time in recent memory as the huge quantities of ‘gen X-ers’ start to understand the requirement for more continuous clinical mediation and long haul care. Interest in turning into a medical caretaker has disappeared lately, likely because of the historical backdrop of the extraordinary and requesting instructive cycle, low compensation, firm and extended periods of time, and fast ‘wear out’ of those rehearsing in the calling (Wharrad, 2003). A complex oversaw care climate in this country is restricting the dollars accessible to be spent on nursing care. Numerous wellbeing callings, particularly