An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia

Climate change has the potential to impact on global, regional, and national disease burdens both directly and indirectly. Projecting and valuing these health impacts is important not only in terms of assessing the overall impact of climate change on various parts of the world, but also of ensuring...

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Otros Autores:	NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
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Publicado:	ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean 2015
Materias:	DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CAMBIO CLIMATICO SALUD ENFERMEDADES PALUDISMO ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES ENFERMEDADES DE ORIGEN VECTORIAL ENFERMEDADES VINCULADAS CON EL AGUA ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS POLITICA AMBIENTAL ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS POLITICA ENERGETICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH DISEASES MALARIA CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES WATER-RELATED DISEASES RESPIRATORY DISEASES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ECONOMIC ASPECTS ENERGY POLICY
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spelling	oai-11362-385972015-08-03T15:30:56Z An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CAMBIO CLIMATICO SALUD ENFERMEDADES PALUDISMO ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES ENFERMEDADES DE ORIGEN VECTORIAL ENFERMEDADES VINCULADAS CON EL AGUA ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS POLITICA AMBIENTAL ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS POLITICA ENERGETICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH DISEASES MALARIA CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES WATER-RELATED DISEASES RESPIRATORY DISEASES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ECONOMIC ASPECTS ENERGY POLICY Climate change has the potential to impact on global, regional, and national disease burdens both directly and indirectly. Projecting and valuing these health impacts is important not only in terms of assessing the overall impact of climate change on various parts of the world, but also of ensuring that national and regional decision-making institutions have access to the data necessary to guide investment decisions and future policy design. This report contributes to the research focusing on projecting and valuing the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean by projecting the climate change-induced excess disease burden for two climate change scenarios in Saint Lucia for the period 2010 - 2050, and by estimating the non-market, statistical life-based costs associated with this excess disease burden. The diseases initially considered in this report are a variety of vector and water-borne impacts and other miscellaneous conditions; specifically, malaria, dengue fever, gastroenteritis/diarrhoeal disease, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, ciguatera poisoning, meningococcal meningitis, and cardio-respiratory diseases. Disease projections were based on derived baseline incidence and mortality rates, available dose-response relationships found in the published literature, climate change scenario population projections for the A2 and B2 IPCC SRES scenario families, and annual temperature and precipitation anomalies as projected by the downscaled ECHAM4 global climate model. Monetary valuation was based on a transfer value of statistical life approach with a modification for morbidity. Using discount rates of 1, 2, and 4%, results show mean annual costs (morbidity and mortality) ranges of $80.2 million (in the B2 scenario, discounted at 4% annually) -$182.4 million (in the A2 scenario, discounted at 1% annually) for St. Lucia.1 These costs are compared to adaptation cost scenarios involving direct and indirect interventions in health care. This comparison reveals a high benefit-cost ratio suggesting that moderate costs will deliver significant benefit in terms of avoided health costs from 2010-2050. In this context indirect interventions target sectors other than healthcare (e.g. water supply). It is also important to highlight that interventions can target both the supply of health infrastructure (including health status and disease monitoring), and households. It is suggested that a focus on coordinated data collection and improved monitoring represents a potentially important no regrets adaptation strategy for St Lucia. Also, the need for this to be part of a coordinated regional response that avoids duplication in spending is highlighted. .--I. Vector-Borne Diseases.--II. Water & Food-Borne Diseases.--III. Menigococcal meningitis.--IV. Cardiovascular & respiratory diseases.--V. Malnutrition &extreme events.--I. Country context-Saint Lucia.--II. Methodology.--III. Highlights from the preliminary stages.--IV. Summary results from the projection stage.--V. Valuation of the excess statistical life burden.-- VI. Discussion. 2015-07-14T11:52:04Z 2015-07-14T11:52:04Z 2011-10-22 Texto Documento Completo http://hdl.handle.net/11362/38597 LC/CAR/L.319 en .pdf application/pdf SANTA LUCIA SAINT LUCIA ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean
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topic	DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CAMBIO CLIMATICO SALUD ENFERMEDADES PALUDISMO ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES ENFERMEDADES DE ORIGEN VECTORIAL ENFERMEDADES VINCULADAS CON EL AGUA ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS POLITICA AMBIENTAL ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS POLITICA ENERGETICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH DISEASES MALARIA CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES WATER-RELATED DISEASES RESPIRATORY DISEASES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ECONOMIC ASPECTS ENERGY POLICY
spellingShingle	DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CAMBIO CLIMATICO SALUD ENFERMEDADES PALUDISMO ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES ENFERMEDADES DE ORIGEN VECTORIAL ENFERMEDADES VINCULADAS CON EL AGUA ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS POLITICA AMBIENTAL ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS POLITICA ENERGETICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH DISEASES MALARIA CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES WATER-RELATED DISEASES RESPIRATORY DISEASES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ECONOMIC ASPECTS ENERGY POLICY An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
description	Climate change has the potential to impact on global, regional, and national disease burdens both directly and indirectly. Projecting and valuing these health impacts is important not only in terms of assessing the overall impact of climate change on various parts of the world, but also of ensuring that national and regional decision-making institutions have access to the data necessary to guide investment decisions and future policy design. This report contributes to the research focusing on projecting and valuing the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean by projecting the climate change-induced excess disease burden for two climate change scenarios in Saint Lucia for the period 2010 - 2050, and by estimating the non-market, statistical life-based costs associated with this excess disease burden. The diseases initially considered in this report are a variety of vector and water-borne impacts and other miscellaneous conditions; specifically, malaria, dengue fever, gastroenteritis/diarrhoeal disease, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, ciguatera poisoning, meningococcal meningitis, and cardio-respiratory diseases. Disease projections were based on derived baseline incidence and mortality rates, available dose-response relationships found in the published literature, climate change scenario population projections for the A2 and B2 IPCC SRES scenario families, and annual temperature and precipitation anomalies as projected by the downscaled ECHAM4 global climate model. Monetary valuation was based on a transfer value of statistical life approach with a modification for morbidity. Using discount rates of 1, 2, and 4%, results show mean annual costs (morbidity and mortality) ranges of $80.2 million (in the B2 scenario, discounted at 4% annually) -$182.4 million (in the A2 scenario, discounted at 1% annually) for St. Lucia.1 These costs are compared to adaptation cost scenarios involving direct and indirect interventions in health care. This comparison reveals a high benefit-cost ratio suggesting that moderate costs will deliver significant benefit in terms of avoided health costs from 2010-2050. In this context indirect interventions target sectors other than healthcare (e.g. water supply). It is also important to highlight that interventions can target both the supply of health infrastructure (including health status and disease monitoring), and households. It is suggested that a focus on coordinated data collection and improved monitoring represents a potentially important no regrets adaptation strategy for St Lucia. Also, the need for this to be part of a coordinated regional response that avoids duplication in spending is highlighted.
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title	An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
title_short	An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
title_full	An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
title_fullStr	An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
title_full_unstemmed	An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia
title_sort	assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the health sector in saint lucia
publisher	ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean
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An assessment of the economic impact Of climate change on the health sector in Saint Lucia

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