Health Care Facility Climate Change Resiliency in Canada Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care Webinar March 2, 2017 Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
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Agenda 1. Introduction to Climate Change Impacts on Health Care Facilities - CCGHC 2. Climate Change Resiliency Planning at UHN – ON Questions & discussion 3. Climate Risks and Impacts to Health Care Service Delivery – BC Questions & discussion 4. Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring Program - CCGHC 3
Presenters • Kent Waddington Communications Director Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care • Ed Rubinstein Director of Environmental Compliance, Energy and Sustainability, University Health Network, ON • Angie Woo Lead, Climate Resilience & Adaptation, Lower Mainland Health, BC 4
Funding support for this webinar provided by : Health Canada 5
Introduction to Climate Change impacts on Health Care Facilities Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care Webinar March 2, 2017 Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
Climate Change Impacts on Health Systems Climate change will be the defining issue for health systems in the 21st century, interacting with all social determinants of health. World Health Organization (WHO), 2015 http://www.who.int/globalchange/publicatio ns/didyouknow-health-ministers.pdf?ua=1 7
Disaster Trend in Canada 1900-2019 250 200 Human Induced Number of Disasters Geophysical 150 Winter Storm Flooding 100 Extreme Heat 50 0 1900-09 1910-19 1920-29 1930-39 1940-49 1950-59 1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-09 2010-2019 Public Safety Canada 8
Extreme Heat Events will Increase in Canada Health Canada, 2011 9
Evidence of Health Impacts from Heat 10
Mental Health Impacts of Flooding in Canada Manitoba Flood 2011 Psychosocial impacts included : • Increases in alcohol and drug use • Increases in family violence • Depression • Anxiety • Sleep disruption • 1 in 300 year flood • 1932 people remained evacuated 2 yrs after the flood 11
Spread of Lyme disease vector ( Ixodes scapularis ) Establishment and spread under current climate (2000) & projected future climate (2020 to 2080) Ogden et al., 2008 12
Health Risks in Canada from Climate Change Health Risks in Canada from Climate Change Dangerous Permafrost travelling conditions melt damaging Changes in drinking water infrastructures quality and quantity Food security - Heat – related changing animal illnesses and distributions deaths Health impacts from more severe storms Psychosocial Water-borne Expansion of Lyme impacts from diseases from Disease vector droughts floods Respiratory illnesses from forest fires 13 http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2008 /hc-sc/H128-1-08-528E.pdf
Hospital Disaster Trends in Canada 1900-2019 Source: Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care 14
Sample Climate Change Impacts on Health Care • Damage to health care infrastructures such as hospitals, clinics and nursing homes. • Power outages • Inadequately trained personnel or lack of an emergency plan. • Contracted essential services interrupted (e.g. laundry and food). • Medical supplies delivery interrupted . • Overcrowding in emergency shelters during a disaster may increase exposure to infectious diseases (e.g. influenza) of health care workers. • Electronic medical records could face access delays of up to days or weeks in the event of a power outage during a disaster. • Delays or cancellations of medical testing or procedures Source for Text: Health Canada, 2008 15
HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit Health Care Facility Resiliency Toolkit : 2 Facilitator Presentation The Resiliency Checklist Resources HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit www.greenhealthcare.ca/resiliency/ 16
HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Checklist Purpose: • Increase awareness of the impacts of climate change on health care facilities in Canada • Enable health care facility officials to assess resiliency to climate change • Provide references and best practices to help health care facilities become more resilient to climate change 17
HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Checklist • Online 78-questions divided into 4 sections • Scoring of results • Notes section to detail current situation • Confidentiality of responses • Resources to help health care facilities become more resilient and adapt to climate change 18
Healthcare Facility Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring Mentoring available for 2 cohorts from 2017 – 2018 Contact: Kent Waddington 613-720-4889 kent@greenhealthcare.ca 19
Funding and support for the development of the toolkit was provided by : Nova Scotia Department of Environment Health Canada 20
Funding for the Climate Change Mentoring project is provided by: Ontario Trillium Foundation An agency of the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is one of Canada’s largest granting foundations. With a budget of over $136 million, OTF awards grants to some 1,000 projects every year to build healthy and vibrant Ontario communities. For more information, please visit: www.otf.ca 21
THANK-YOU For more information please contact: Samantha Putos – CCGHC samanthat@greenhealthcare.ca Kent Waddington – CCGHC kent@greenhealthcare.ca 22
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