The Ministry of Health and Social Security has announced the update of the UAE National Framework on Climate Change and its Impact on Health as part of efforts to combat climate change and the effects of air pollution on health.

The framework launched by the Ministry, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and in collaboration with relevant government agencies at the state level, aims to address the impact of climate change on health and ensure the well-being of community members.

This happened during a session organized by the ministry as part of the proceedings of the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) hosted by the United Arab Emirates at Expo City Dubai.

The national framework focuses on several axes: governance, policies and participation to protect health from climate change and resilient health systems to address climate change through robust monitoring, early warning and response. In addition to mobilizing support for improving the public health response to climate change.

Dr Hussain Abdul Rahman Al-Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health at the Ministry of Health and Social Security, said: “A proactive response to climate change in the health sector in the UAE is one of the government’s priorities. The Ministry of Health and Social Security recognizes that having tools to monitor, control and predict disease is a pillar. “This is essential in achieving the declaration of establishing a world-leading health system and renewing the UAE’s national framework. Climate change and its impact on health is part of its efforts and interest to implement effective measures to prevent the impact of climate change and air pollution on health.

Al-Rand added: “The Ministry worked with its partners to update the national framework by benefiting from its previous experiences when it was launched in 2019, as this update keeps pace with climate changes and changes occurring globally, and helps. Anticipate the consequences of this issue and its implications for changing disease patterns in order to protect the health and well-being of community members.

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Head of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Dr. Maysoun Al-Shali and Dr Mazen Malkawi, representative of the World Health Organization, participated in a discussion session following the announcement. National framework, health and environmental policy makers, in the presence of an elite group of experts and health professionals, and climate change, a group of researchers and people interested in climate issues.

The session saw discussions on the importance of the UAE National Framework on Climate Change and Health as it has a strategic response to the public health challenges posed by climate change and ensures its effectiveness and continuity in line with global best practices. Health challenges associated with climate change.

The session focused on addressing current policies on climate change and health, how to integrate climate change into health policies and strategies, improve community participation, raise awareness of the health impacts of climate change, and improve intergovernmental collaboration. , the private sector and international organizations discuss the importance of establishing robust monitoring systems to monitor impacts and climate-related health.

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Dr. Maysoun Al-Shali stressed that expert discussions of health and environmental policymakers and climate change experts will improve the effectiveness of this framework and contribute to the development of evidence-based policies and strategies that address the health effects of climate change. To transform and ensure the well-being of populations, the exchange of knowledge, experiences and best practices among participants leads to increased awareness and capacity building of climate change and its impact on health.

It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Health and Social Security, as part of its efforts to update the UAE National Framework on Climate Change and its Impact on Health, organized training workshops on measuring and assessing the impacts of climate change. It was discussed, in collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office and relevant government agencies in the country, that these workshops included methods and ways to assess the risks of air pollution on health, and implementation of more. Group exercises to measure and assess health vulnerability to climate change and evaluate existing response and adaptation options in the health sector.

By Fatima Yasser

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 04:00 PM

The psychological consultant also said that psychological cough is a non-pathological symptom, which means that the person is not sick with a disease like cold or flu, the reason why it is called psychological cough is due to a psychological factor and not pathological.

Rashid pointed out that psychological cough occurs in the form of repeated attacks and increases when a person is stressed and anxious, and is accompanied by certain symptoms such as itching at the back of the throat and inability to breathe normally. In addition to the urge to cough, these symptoms cause insomnia in a person. And if the psychological cause leading to the cough is not controlled and treated, things can get worse.

The mental health consultant explained that dealing with the psychological factors that lead to coughing is one of the most important tips to get rid of it. You can practice yoga as it helps in managing and coping with cough. Tactics that contribute to psychological relaxation and a sense of peace, so don’t hesitate.

If the symptoms get worse, he should consult a psychiatrist to get rid of the stress and anxiety causing the cough, he said, adding that all this happens only after confirming that the person has no other cause. Appearance of cough.

All of these bites are caused by women, who have the perfect oral anatomy that men don’t.

But things weren’t always like this. Researchers said they found two ancient mosquito fossils of two males preserved in two pieces of amber dating back to the Cretaceous period of 130 million years. The city of Hammanah in Lebanon.

What surprised them was that they had long, piercing and sucking mouthparts that we now only see in females.

“It’s clearly a blood vessel,” said paleontologist Danny Azar of Lebanon University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology.

“So this is a great discovery in mosquito evolutionary history,” said Azar, lead author of the study published this week in the journal Current Biology.

Two fossilized mosquitoes from the same extinct species are similar in size and appearance to modern mosquitoes, but the mouthparts they used to obtain blood were smaller compared to today’s female mosquitoes.

Azar said: “Mosquitoes are among the most popular blood feeders for humans and most vertebrates on Earth, and they transmit a limited number of parasites and diseases to their hosts.”

He continued: “Only pregnant female mosquitoes suck blood because their eggs need protein to grow. Infertile males and females eat some nectar from plants. Some males have no food at all.”

Males of some flying insects, such as the tsetse fly, feed on blood, but this is not the case for modern-day mosquitoes.

“Finding this behavior in the Cretaceous is a big surprise,” said study co-author André Neal, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The researchers said they suspect that mosquitoes may have evolved from insects that do not feed on blood. They hypothesize that mouthparts adapted to suck blood were first used to pierce plants to access nutrient fluids.

The discovery “reveals that the first mosquitoes were all blood-feeders, regardless of whether they were male or female, and that the blood-swallowing trait was later lost in males, possibly due to flowering and the emergence of contemporary plants,” Azar said. Lebanese Amber.”

Although these are very ancient fossils, the researchers said that mosquitoes may have appeared millions of years ago.

Molecular evidence suggests that mosquitoes appeared during the Jurassic period, which lasted from about 200 million to 145 million years ago.

There are more than 3,500 species of mosquitoes in the world, and these insects are found everywhere except Antarctica.

Some of them become vectors for malaria, yellow fever, Zika fever, dengue fever and other diseases.

According to the World Health Organization, malaria kills more than 400,000 people annually, most of them children under the age of five.

But on the other hand, mosquitoes help purify the water of ponds, lakes and rivers, Neal said.