Table 3.
Highest priority climate-sensitive health risks in individual Pacific Island countries (with each country’s highest priorities indicated by ‘x’).
| Climate-Sensitive-Health-Risk | Country |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Islands | Fiji | Kiribati | Marshall Islands | Micronesia (Federated States) | Nauru | Niue | Palau | Samoa | Solomon Islands | Tonga | Tuvalu | Vanuatu | |
| Direct effects | |||||||||||||
| Health impacts of extreme weather events | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Heat-related illness | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| Indirect effects | |||||||||||||
| Water security & safety (including waterborne diseases) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Food security & safety (including malnutrition & foodborne diseases) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Vector-borne diseases | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Zoonoses | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| Respiratory illness | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Disorders of the eyes, ears, skin and other body systems | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| Diffuse effects | |||||||||||||
| Disorders of mental/psychosocial health | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Health systems problems | x | x | |||||||||||
| Population pressures | x | ||||||||||||
Source: modified from McIver et al., 2016 [9].