Technical series on adapting to climate-sensitive health impacts: diarrhoeal diseases

Overview

This guide presents a basis for understanding how diarrhoeal diseases are currently influenced by climate and weather, and may be further exacerbated by climate change. It is a technical guide on how to conduct a Vulnerability & Adaptation assessment for diarrhoeal diseases and climate change, and provides guidance on how to:

• identify populations and regions vulnerable to diarrhoeal diseases and the reasons for their vulnerability;
• establish relevant baselines that can be analysed and monitored;
• conduct analyses to project how diarrhoeal diseases may be impacted in the future due to climate change; and
• identify appropriate responses to mitigate and monitor these risks over time.

This guide provides information specific to the analysis of diarrhoeal diseaes and climate change, and should be used in conjunction with the main WHO Vulnerability & Adaptation guidance.