Health and climate change: complex problems with co-benefits - Health Foundation
The Health Foundation are an independent charitable organisation, with focus on research and analysis of the wider factors that shape our health and drive inequalities. They aim to use evidence and data to improve policy and support services to innovate and improve.
This report discusses the interrelationship between climate change and health in the UK, highlighting how progress has been made in positioning climate change as an issue requiring action at many levels and across sectors, whereas health is still predominantly seen as the business of health care services and health departments and professionals, and is understood by the public as an individual rather than a systemic issue.
The report explores the evidence for actions that have co-benefits for health and the environment, to draw out the opportunities for health offered by action on climate change in order to secure whole-system change.