Telehealth as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Emine Didem EVCİ KİRAZa

aAydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Aydın, Türkiye

ABSTRACT
Monitoring the health impacts of climate change (HICC) and efforts to adapt are new. It does not have a fixed methodology that is reflected in the legislation and that is in common practice. It can be said that it is too early to discuss how telehealth applications should be included in climate change adaptation strategies; it can also be emphasized that it is an accelerating tool for accelerating adaptation. In this section, HICC, the protection of health from the negative effects of climate change and the adaptation of the health sector to climate change are discussed and the areas of need for telehealth use are revealed. World Health Organization (WHO) stated in 2021 health and climate change survey that there is need to integrate climate change signals with health surveillance systems. Health data must be included in the current climate and sectoral vulnerability and risk analyzes. Thanks to telehealth, studies will accelerate.
Keywords: Social vulnerability; public health; global boiling; resilience, psychological; digital technology

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