{"id":12268,"date":"2019-01-21T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EB144-5.6-Health-environment-and-climate-change-WMA.pdf"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:20:18","slug":"eb144-5-6-health-environment-and-climate-change-wma-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/eb144-5-6-health-environment-and-climate-change-wma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EB144 &#8211; 5.6 Health, environment and climate change &#8211; WMA"},"author":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EB144-5.6-Health-environment-and-climate-change-WMA.pdf'>EB144 - 5.6 Health, environment and climate change - WMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, INC.<br \/>\nL\u2019ASSOCIATION MEDICALE MONDIALE, INC<br \/>\nASOCIACION MEDICA MUNDIAL, INC<br \/>\nCentre International de Bureaux FEIN : 13-2566243<br \/>\nImmeuble A \u00ab\u00a0Keynes\u00a0\u00bb Website : www.wma.net Postal Address :<br \/>\n13, chemin du Levant Telephone : (33) 4 50 40 75 75 Bo\u00eete Postale 63<br \/>\n01210 FERNEY-VOLTAIRE Fax : (33) 4 50 40 59 37 01210 FERNEY-VOLTAIRE Cedex<br \/>\nFrance E-mail address : wma@wma.net France<br \/>\n144th EB Session<br \/>\n5.6 Health, environment and climate change<br \/>\nDistinguished Delegates,<br \/>\nThank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the World Medical Association, which<br \/>\nrepresents 9 million physicians around the world.<br \/>\nRecognising WHO\u2019s leadership role on health and climate change, we welcome its draft global<br \/>\nstrategy, in particular the proposal to address the wide spectrum of climate change impact on health<br \/>\nthrough cross-sectoral action on determinants of health in all policies (Objective 2). We consider<br \/>\nthough that much greater emphasis should be placed on the 2 following key policy areas:<br \/>\n\u2022 Trade and economic policies, in particular trade agreements, should protect, promote and<br \/>\nprioritize public health over commercial interests and secure services in the public interest,<br \/>\nincluding those impacting on health and environment.<br \/>\n\u2022 Agriculture and food systems\u2019 transformations (food safety and quality) due to climate<br \/>\nchange, have a pervasive impact on health, low-income producers and consumers of food being<br \/>\nthe most exposed.<br \/>\nFurthermore, we welcome the objective 3 to strengthen health sector leadership and governance and<br \/>\nrecommend developing further on ways to equip and educate the health workforce, including<br \/>\nphysicians, to promote a better environment, address patients\u2019 needs, and transmit health knowledge<br \/>\nregarding environmental risks to policy-makers, the media and communities.<br \/>\nFinally, we would like to reiterate our concern regarding health resources required to empower the<br \/>\nhealth sector in addressing climate change challenges. While primary prevention is essential, it does<br \/>\nnot replace curative care, rehabilitation and palliative care. We are therefore concerned by WHO\u2019s<br \/>\nproposed action for \u201ca rebalancing of health sector expenditure towards primary prevention over the<br \/>\nlong term\u201d1<br \/>\n, which could ultimately impact negatively on the people. We call for solid additional<br \/>\nresources to empower the health sector.<br \/>\nThank you<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nDraft Strategy, parag. 24<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>EB144 &#8211; 5.6 Health, environment and climate change &#8211; WMA THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, INC. L\u2019ASSOCIATION MEDICALE MONDIALE, INC ASOCIACION MEDICA MUNDIAL, INC Centre International de Bureaux FEIN : 13-2566243 Immeuble A \u00ab\u00a0Keynes\u00a0\u00bb Website : www.wma.net Postal Address : 13, chemin du Levant Telephone : (33) 4 50 40 75 75 Bo\u00eete Postale 63 01210 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"file","mime_type":"application\/pdf","media_details":{},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EB144-5.6-Health-environment-and-climate-change-WMA.pdf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}]}}