Economics of Health and Climate Change in Bangladesh.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BY MINHAJ MAHMUD DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, BRAC UNIVERSITY DHAKA Economics of Health and Climate Change in Bangladesh Introduction Definition of Health Climate change and Health in Bangladesh Economics of Health and Climate Change Conclusion Health: How it is defined Health is ……“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” Public Health The approaches taken to protect and improve the health of communities the control of the causes of disease; detection of early cases of disease through screening and treatment at a stage at which cure is likely; treating patients with clinical manifest disease Climate change and Health Impact in Bangladesh Direct effects: extreme weather events(thermal stress, death/injury in major weather events Indirect: health consequences due to environmental changes, including diverse health consequences such as trauma, infectious, nutritional Climate change is expected to change the distributions of factors that affect the occurrence of morbidity and mortality Increased frequencies of both vector-borne(malaria, dengue) and waterborne diseases(diarrhoea) are early noticeable changes Warming would produce more rapid replication of the dengue virus- a major infectious disease in Bangladesh (ICDDRB 2009) Climate change and health in Bangladesh Climate change will cause most severe impact on diarrhoeal diseases related health problem in Bangladesh Rowland (1986): Seasonal peak of E Coli diarrhoea coincides with the time when food is most contaminated due to higher bacterial growth due to high temperature Huq et al (2005): Significant correlations of temperature with occurrence of cholera toxin-producing bacteria Hashizume et al (2008): An increase in rotavirus diarrhoea in Dhaka by 40.2% for each 1 degree rise in temperature above 29 degree Celsius Number of non-cholera diarrhoea also increases Climate chan