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==== 4.5.5. Health and Nutrition ====

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'''Human health will benefit from integrated mitigation and adaptation options that mainstream health into food, infrastructure, social protection, and water policies (''' '''''very high confidence).''''' Balanced and sustainable healthy diets '''[[#footnote-001|156]]''' and reduced food loss and waste present important opportunities for adaptation and mitigation while generating significant co-benefits in terms of biodiversity and human health ''(high confidence'' ). Public health policies to improve nutrition, such as increasing the diversity of food sources in public procurement, health insurance, financial incentives, and awareness-raising campaigns, can potentially influence food demand, reduce food waste, reduce healthcare costs, contribute to lower GHG emissions and enhance adaptive capacity ( ''high confidence'' ). Improved access to clean energy sources and technologies, and shifts to active mobility (e.g., walking and cycling) and public transport can deliver socioeconomic, air quality and health benefits, especially for women and children ( ''high confidence'' ). { ''WGII SPM C.2.2, WGII SPM C.2.11, WGII Cross-Chapter Box HEALTH; WGIII SPM C.2.2, WGIII SPM C.4.2, WGIII SPM C.9.1, WGIII SPM C.10.4, WGIII SPM D.1.3, WGIII Figure SPM.6, WGIII Figure SPM.8; SRCCL SPM B.6.2, SRCCL SPM B.6.3, SRCCL B.4.6, SRCCL SPM C.2.4'' }

'''Effective adaptation options exist to help protect human health and well-being (''' '''''high confidence)''''' '''''.''''' Health Action Plans that include early warning and response systems are effective for extreme heat ( ''high confidence'' ). Effective options for water-borne and food-borne diseases include improving access to potable water, reducing exposure of water and sanitation systems to flooding and extreme weather events, and improved early warning systems ( ''very high confidence'' ). For vector-borne diseases, effective adaptation options include surveillance, early warning systems, and vaccine development ( ''very high confidence'' ). Effective adaptation options for reducing mental health risks under climate change include improving surveillance and access to mental health care, and monitoring of psychosocial impacts from extreme weather events ( ''high confidence'' ). A key pathway to climate resilience in the health sector is universal access to healthcare ( ''high confidence'' ). { ''WGII SPM C.2.11, WGII7.4.6'' }

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