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After Cyclone Ditwah: Climate-proofing Sri Lanka’s health system
Institute of Policy Studies explores impact of climate change and disasters on the country’s healthcare system
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The authors stress that integrated coordination platforms and climate-health surveillance systems are essential to building climate-resilient health services. As Sri Lanka assesses the human and economic toll of Ditwah, the cyclone serves as yet another warning of longstanding vulnerabilities in the disaster-response ecosystem, vulnerabilities that climate change is rapidly intensifying across the region.
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People
- Pulasthi Amarasinghe2
- Usha Perera2
Organisations
- Institute of Policy Studies of2
- Health and disaster agencies2
- Institute of Policy Studies
- Ministry of Health
- World Bank
Places
- Sri Lanka3
- Sabaragamuwa2
- Colombo2
- Gampaha2
- Sri Lanka.Figure
- Washington DC
- Sri Lanka.F
- Ditwah
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- cyclone3
- proofing2
- climate2
- system2
- dashboards
- integrated
- weaknesses
- disasters
- explores
- response
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