ICS Estudos e Relatórios Nº1 / 2019

ICS E S T U D O S e R E L A T Ó R I O S 2019 Policy Recommendations 1. Urban health and wellbeing under climate change could be an effective vehicle to convey the urgency of action both in terms of mitigation and adaptation and hence needs to be further explored. 2. Climate change risks need to be further emphasized since the research community has long understated them due to their conscientious scientific ethos. 3. The significant challenges we faced are non-communicable disease burden, emerging infectious disease, ageing population, rising health expenditure, health inequity. 4. The complexity of urban health and the health co-benefits of low carbon transition need to be further comprehended, and actions need to embrace intersectoral collaborative and participatory approaches. 5. Set managing urban health under climate change with systems approaches as an overarching goal for achieving sustainability in our socio-economic-ecological systems. Part 2: Integrated Approaches to Public Health Prof. Manuel Limonta , Director of International Science Council Regional Office, Latin America and the Caribbean (ISC-ROLAC) “The main problem to overcome the Urban Health conditions in El Salvador was the lack of inter-sectoriality among the different ministries.” This meeting provided a variety of approaches and presentations of the Urban Health work. In my case, it was interesting to realize the vital work done by the natural sciences. Climate change and global warming are causing damage to all regions of the world. It was also fascinating to learn the studies and efforts that many countries such as China and others are making to help to reduce this problem. During the Expert Meeting, I presented the Salvadoran Urban Health Model, which is the result of a comprehensive work done in San Salvador since October 2016. This work started with the aim of gathering people of different institutions to develop the Urban Health platform in the country. ISC-ROLAC started with an Urban Health workshop in October 2016, with the participation of two UH experts, Franz Gatzweiler from the UHWB program and Jose Siri from the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH). The main objective of this workshop was to diagnose the