Integrating health into national disaster risk management plans has wider benefits for resilience and adaptation to climate change risks  . DRR, including disaster preparedness, management and response, is widely recognised as important for reducing health consequences of climate-related hazards and extreme weather events . A systematic review by Islam et al.  identified multiple, ongoing challenges to integrating climate adaptation and DRR at global and national levels, including a lack of capacity among key actors and institutions, a lack of coordination and collaboration across scales of government and general lack of funding-challenges that are particularly relevant for the health sector. Global events, including climate-related extreme events and public health emergencies of international concern  and COVID-19) have influenced the development of national public health preparedness and response systems and attracted significant investment over the last two decades . The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the International Health Regulations establish important global and regional goals for increasing health system resilience and reducing health impacts from biological hazards and extreme climate events . There are explicit links between the health aspect of the Sendai Framework and UN SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17 . More specifically, reducing the number of disaster-related deaths, illnesses and injuries, as well as damage to health facilities are key indicators for achieving the goals set out in the Sendai Framework .
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