Cómo fortalecer las medidas de adaptación en salud para enfrentar el desafío del cambio climático en las Américas

The guide describes an 11-session course focused on scaling up health system adaptation in the Americas. It emphasizes moving from reactive, incremental pilot projects to transformative, system-wide resilience. Key components include vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&A), community empowerment, strategic communication, and the integration of low-carbon transitions with climate resilience. The course also addresses governance challenges, equity for vulnerable and indigenous populations, and the necessity of partnerships between governments and civil society.

• Climate change presents unprecedented threats to health systems that exceed traditional single-risk thinking, requiring an understanding of compound, cascading, and cumulative climate effects to address systemic vulnerabilities.
• There is a critical need to transition from isolated pilot projects and reactive, incremental adaptation toward 'transformative scaling' to achieve full system-wide climate resilience.
• Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments (V&A) are identified as fundamental catalysts for scaling adaptation, though their implementation faces institutional resistance and challenges in translating climate science for policymakers.
• Effective scaling of health adaptation must prioritize inclusion and equity to avoid reinforcing existing disparities, specifically emphasizing community-driven adaptation and leadership by indigenous peoples.
• Governance structures—whether federal, unitary, or decentralized—and specific geographic contexts, such as Small Island Developing States and remote rural areas, significantly influence the strategies used to scale health adaptation.
• Health systems should simultaneously pursue climate resilience and decarbonization, seeking synergies between adaptation and mitigation while managing potential trade-offs.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Cómo fortalecer las medidas de adaptación en salud para enfrentar el desafío del cambio climático en las Américas. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Curso%20Adaptacio%CC%81n%20Salud%20GCCHE%20OPS%20IAI%20Health%20Canada_2025.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Cómo fortalecer las medidas de adaptación en salud para enfrentar el desafío del cambio climático en las Américas. n.d. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Curso%20Adaptacio%CC%81n%20Salud%20GCCHE%20OPS%20IAI%20Health%20Canada_2025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndcmo, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Cómo fortalecer las medidas de adaptación en salud para enfrentar el desafío del cambio climático en las Américas}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Curso%20Adaptacio%CC%81n%20Salud%20GCCHE%20OPS%20IAI%20Health%20Canada_2025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }