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OUR Planet, OUR Health, OUR Future
They are in OUR Hands
Speech from the Director
Washington, D.C. PAHO HQ.
April 7, 2008.
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"We can all contribute to protect our planet and to protect our health."
"Climate change impacts on health both directly - for example through heat waves, floods and storms and other extreme weather events, but also indirectly, through effects on infectious disease, on water availability, and on agricultural production.
These are not minor issues. Diseases that are sensitive to climate include some of our biggest killers as malaria, diarrhea, and also including risk conditions as it is under nutrition, the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease."
The Director launch the Green PAHO Initiative looking at a comprehensive way to "green" our "working environment" and thus continue our goal of Building Healthy Environments.
"Our work has evolved, from describing the risks of climate change to health, to capacity building with health practitioners, to guidance on how to assess risks and plan protection, to proposing practical guidance on protecting health from specific climate risks."
"...We need a comprehensive Framework for Action to properly address climate change and its impact on health: addressing Evidence, implementing Adaptation mechanisms in the health sector, and providing Leadership..."
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Webcast from Washington, D.C., PAHO HQ.
World Health Day 2008 ceremony
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PAHO Walk for Health 2008
Washington, D.C. April 5, 2008.
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Successful Walk for Health Event at PAHO HQ.
 More than 150 staff members and their families joined this saturday walking for health to celebrate World Health Day 2008.
See the pictures from the Walk: Walk for Health 2008 [.ppt]
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Climate Change
a Challenge to Human Species
Interview with Mirta Roses*
Tierramérica.- Montevideo, Apr 7 (IPS)
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"World Health Day, celebrated Apr. 7, is a good opportunity to "call attention to the fact that the survival
of humanity is at stake" because of climate change, according to Mirta Roses, director of the Pan-American
Health Organization."
Government officials and local communities must "take on whatever responsibility that they can in order
to contribute to a more stable environment," reduce the vulnerability of populations in high-risk zones and
in poverty, such as indigenous communities, said the Argentine surgeon, an expert in infectious diseases, in
a telephone interview from Washington DC with Tierramérica.
English: Climate Change a Challenge to Human Species
Español: Cambio climático desafía a la especie humana
Português: Mudança climática desafia a espécie humana
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El ser humano tiene que volver a respetar a la Pachamama
Entrevista realizada a la Dra. Mirta Roses Periago, Directora de la OPS.
Argentina. La Voz del Interior. Marzo 24 2008.
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"... el cambio climático ya empezó a mostrar su
impacto negativo sobre la salud, tenemos retos actuales con la salud de nuestros países con la expansión de
enfermedades como la fiebre amarilla y el dengue, es imperioso
que el hombre recuerde que su vida está unida a la del planeta."
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