Thuan Nguyen 5 th International Conference Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change March 2011 I Dhaka Health Risk Management in a Changing Climate: An operational research project on community-based dengue fever prevention in Vietnam
Jan 17, 2015
Thuan Nguyen5th International Conference Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
March 2011 I Dhaka
Health Risk Management in a Changing Climate:
An operational research project on community-based dengue fever
prevention in Vietnam
Climate change, together with other drivers might alter the pattern of dengue fever. But we do not know how
How do we communicate messages of changing risks, CC- dengue fever to communities?
How do we strengthen Vietnam Red Cross – Ministry of Health partnership in climate sensitive diseases?
Dengue fever risk factors
Health risk management in changing climate project
Objective: To reduce the impacts of climate change in health issues in selected communities
Timeframe: 2010-2011
Same project also implemented in Jakarta, Indonesia
Donor: Rockefeller Foundation through Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Grant also supporting CC and health work with Kenya and Tanzania Red Cross
Community survey
Aims:
- Identify baseline knowledge, attitudes and practices with regards to dengue-Identify baseline perceptions of climate change and the links to health
Method:-In depth interviews and focus groups-Quantitative survey: 400
Will CC affects DF? If yes/maybe, how?
How will climate change affect your family?
Next steps Design and test behaviour change communication materials
When communicating on dengue fever - does the addition of CC messages:
- Make people confused and less able to retain dengue fever messages?
OR
- Reinforce the importance of dengue fever prevention?
What do communities do in the project?
COMMUNITY
Strengthening VNRC-MOH collaboration
Map current collaboration mechanism
Ensure sharing of information and operational planning mechanism works to address changing risks due to climate change
National structure for Dengue Fever
Ministry of Health
Provincial/district Department of Health
CommunalHealth Station
VNRC Headquarter
Provincial/DistrictVNRC Chapter
Red Cross staffs, volunteers
Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Steering Committee
RC supporting national structure for DF/infectious diseases prevention
03 take-home messages
The need for communication of changing risks to community
CBO can ensure that early detection quickly translated into early response
Strengthening existing mechanism VNRC-MOH to complement both top-down and bottom-up model.
www.redcross.org.vnwww.ifrc.org
www.climatecentre.org
Thank you!
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