Commonwealth Health Ministers' Update 2009
Commonwealth Secretariat
Paper: 978 0 85092 872 3
Price: $56.00  

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
September 2009 , 144 pp., 8 1/2" x 11 3/4"
Produced for the annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting, the Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Update is a central source of information for Ministers on topical health priorities. The theme for the 2009 Meeting is Health and Climate Change: Current Vulnerabilities and Priorities for Action.

This accompanying reference book provides comprehensive and essential information on the many important health challenges facing Commonwealth citizens in the 21st century resulting from climate change. With 31 specially conducted country surveys into the impact of climate change on health, complete with full analysis, plus articles from many of the world’s leading experts, this publication gives a valuable overview of the issues and explains the latest thinking in both the private and public sectors.

Table of Contents:
Foreword: Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Update 2009; Introduction: Health and Climate Change: Current Risks and Future Challenges;
1) Climate Change and Human Health—Professor Anthony J McMichael; Supporter’s Feature: What’s working in healthcare reform—Jean P Drouin, Viktor Hediger, Nicolaus Henke, Ludwig Kanzier and Paolo De Santis; Regional Case Study: The impact of climate change on health in the East, Central and Southern African (ECSA) region—Steven V Shongwe; Regional Case Study: Impact of climate change on health and current policy responses in West Africa—West African Health Organization; Supporter’s Feature: The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: Innovation to fight a disease—Patrizia Carlevaro;
2) The health risks of climate change—Kristie L Ebi and Anthony Nyong; Special Feature: Malaria and climate change—Dr Andrew Karanja Githeko;
3) Developing effective adaptation strategies—Sari Kovats, Mozaharul Alam, Palanitina Tupuimatagi Toelupe and Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed; Regional Case Study: Climate change its impact and policy responses in the SADC region—Directorate for Social and Human Development and Special Programmes, Directorate for Food Agriculture and Natural Resources and Directorate for Infrastructure and Services;
4) Mitigating climate, meeting MDGs, and moderating chronic disease: the health co-benefits landscape—Kirk R Smith and Kalpana Balakrishnan; Sponsored Feature: Environmental aspects of the UK’s National Health Service—Richard Wootton; Special Feature: Climate change and health: a Pacific perspective—Dr Jimmie Rodgers; Sponsored Feature: The evolving face of nutritional needs and assistance – SIGHT AND LIFE’s two decades of humanitarian assistance; Regional Case Study: Climate change and health: current vulnerabilities and priorities for action—Garfield Barnwell and Dr Rudolph Cummings;
5) Responding to the health impacts of climate change in the Commonwealth—Judith Parsons and Victoria Hall;
Annex: Responses to the Commonwealth Survey on Health and Climate Change:
Australia; Barbados; Belize; Botswana; Brunei Darussalam; Cameroon; Canada; Cook Islands; Jamaica ; Kenya; Malawi; Malaysia; Malta; Mauritius; Sponsored Feature: Public health and healthcare in the Republic of Mauritius; Nauru; New Zealand; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; St Lucia; St Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Swaziland; Tanzania; Sponsored Feature: Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Health moves full speed on its transformational plan; Uganda; UK; Vanuatu; List of Supporters and Advertisers/Acknowledgements.