Asia, Europe discuss responses to climate change and emerging diseases
VGP – The ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Workshop on sharing experience of preparedness in response to the global climate change and emerging diseases was held in Hà Nội on November 4-5, 2009.
The workshop was co-organized by Việt
The ASEM Workshop on sharing experiences of preparedness in response to
the global climate change and emerging diseases, Hà Nội, November 5, 2009
This is a good forum for ASEM members to exchange and share
information about impacts of climate change on environment and community health
as well as solutions to deal with the effects.
The workshop placed focus on two major issues: Evaluating the
situation of climate change and emerging diseases; and responses to climate
change and emerging diseases. Besides, supervision over negative impacts of
climate change on health in Việt
Through the workshop, scientists hoped that Việt Nam will
pay more attention to improving awareness for those having influence on climate
change-related health policies, such as politicians, specialists, professionals
and vulnerable groups.
In the framework of the workshop, Việt
By Thùy Dung