Local climate change and health assessment report 2024

Summary

This report presents a comprehensive overview of the Local Climate Change and Health Assessment as the result of collaborative efforts between the Municipality of Alabat and the Climate and Health team at the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine – William H. Quasha Memorial.

With a shared commitment to building the municipality’s climate resilience, especially its health systems, this collaboration was initiated in June 2022 to 1) co-diagnose the current impacts and future threats of climate change on the well-being of Alabatins and 2) codesign locally relevant climate-adaptation strategies that maximise its health co-benefits.

By employing a multifaceted approach including stakeholder consultations, interviews, document reviews, and field visits, this climate and health assessment primarily focused on two key aspects: the prioritisation of Alabat’s climate-related hazards and corresponding climate sensitive health conditions, and the co-designing of potential adaptation strategies implementable from the individual- to health-systems levels.

The outcome of this assessment is hoped to align with the proposal to leverage the People’s Survival Fund. This funding opportunity can serve as a critical step to propel Alabat’s efforts to build climate-resilient health systems.

The Municipality of Alabat and St. Luke’s MCCM-WHQM embarked on a collaboration in 2022 with the primary aim of building the climate resilience of its health systems, engaging the different sectors to explore and understand the municipality’s experience of climate change and its impacts on the health of Alabatins.