Brazil’s Sectoral Plan for Health aims to increase the resilience of the health sector and the Unified Health System (SUS) by strengthening climate-sensitive disease surveillance, healthcare preparedness, emergency response, and protection of vulnerable populations from the health impacts of climate change. The plan focuses on reducing vulnerabilities associated with extreme weather events, heatwaves, floods, droughts, poor air quality, water-related risks, and climate-sensitive diseases.
Key themes are: health resilience, climate-sensitive diseases, disaster preparedness, public health surveillance, vulnerable populations, health equity, climate justice.
