Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems in India: A Comprehensive Health Systems Approach

Climate change has a significant impact on human health, leading to increased mortality and morbidity worldwide, including in India. To address this issue, countries must work on developing health systems that can effectively respond, manage, recover, and adapt to climate-related shocks and stresses. Strengthening the health system's resilience requires focusing on essential building blocks, such as leadership, health information systems, the health workforce, essential medical products and technologies, service delivery, and health financing. India, as a key player in this global effort, has undertaken many initiatives in each of the health system building blocks. However, there is a pressing need for India to strengthen its planning processes, ensure adequate financial resources, and develop a robust data system to make its health system resilient to climate change and low carbon emissions.