Elaine Ruth Fletcher
Editor-in-Chief at Health Policy Watch
Editor-in-chief, Health Policy Watch
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3 days ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak. Only 21 countries out of the 195 parties to the UN Paris Agreement have submitted updated national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Commitments) through the year 2035 – nearly four months after the plans were due.
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
A new WHO Climate and Health Action plan was approved by a key World Health Assembly Committee Tuesday evening – after hours of high-stakes, high drama parliamentary maneuvers by a cluster of oil-rich WHO member states to shelve the plan failed. WHO Member states accepted the original plan by a vote of 109-0, with 19 absentions. Hours earlier, the WHA rejected a Saudi-led initiative to delay approval of the plan for another year by a vote of 86-23 with 11 abstentions.
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
Vital medical aid from World Health Organization supply trucks has yet to reach the beseiged Gaza enclave since the doors of an 80-day blockade inched open a week ago, said Hanan Balkhy, WHO’s director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, at a UN-Geneva press briefing on Monday.
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
For the first time since the 1990s, the World Health Organization has been asked by member states to update its assessment on the health impacts of nuclear war, although not without significant resistance, led by Russia and North Korea, but also including many other major nuclear states. The resolution calling for an updated assessment of the “effects of nuclear war on public health” was approved by a margin of 84-14 votes with 28 abstentions.
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
In a last minute move, Saudi Arabia along with Russia and other powerful oil producing states are trying to shelve a draft WHO Action plan on Climate and Health – that maps ways in which WHO can support low- and middle-income nations to adapt to climate change, reduce future health impacts, including for health systems themselves. A motion to postpone implementation of the Action Plan was posted on the World Health Assembly website over the week.
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