To Improve Healthcare Delivery, WHO Asks Countries to Generate Evidence on Climate Migration & Displacement

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WHO's Western Pacific region, including vulnerable island nations, faces significant threats from climate change-related extreme weather causing migration and displacement. WHO has called on countries to gather evidence to improve healthcare delivery addressing the health impacts of climate migration in this populous region.

WHO’s Western Pacific region, the agency’s most populous, is home to nearly two billion people, including some small island nations like Fiji, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands whose very existence is threatened by climate change. And yet, no one really knows how many people are on the move due to climate-related extreme weather events that […]