Health workers using climate-health information
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This indicator measures the proportion of health workers who have been trained under an SC-supported project and could demonstrate the use of climate-informed health information, such as climate and health surveillance systems, early warning systems, sem, etc, such as:
- Percentage of health workers having received training on climate resilience in the past two years
- Health workers in specific programs have information and training on the interlinkages between specific health outcomes and climate variability and change
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Number of health workers who demonstrate the use of climate-informed health information systems
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Total number of health workers in health facilities that are supported by SC programs
The means of verification for this indicator are being developed and will be published in the future.
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Climate-informed health information system consists of data on climate-sensitive environmental risks, hazards, and epidemiological trends collected, analyzed, and interpreted on a continual basis, and a timely response to risks promoted (WHO, 2023). https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/373837/9789240081888-eng.pdf?sequence=1
Climate-informed health information system could include:
1. An integrated climate and health surveillance system for specific climate-sensitive diseases has been implemented
2. Early detection tools (e.g., rapid diagnostics, syndromic surveillance) used to identify changing incidence and early action identified and implemented
3. Climate-informed health early warning systems that predict the risk of outbreaks of priority infectious diseases (e.g, malaria, dengue, cholerahave been ) have been developed and implemented
4. Climate and weather information used to assess risk of outbreaks of climate-sensitive diseases (i.e., integrated health and climate surveillance systems)
5. Participation of the Ministry of Health in cross-sectoral groups receiving warnings on extreme weather events
6. Geographic and seasonal distribution of health risks and outcomes (e.g, risk mapping) tracked for priority climate-sensitive diseases