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Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología

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GONZALEZ DIAZ, Carlos; GONZALEZ DIAZ, Eneida  y  CRUZ DOMINGUEZ, Candelaria. Climate change and national defense in Cuba. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2013, vol.51, n.1, pp.52-63. ISSN 1561-3003.

Many are the ways in which climate change may affect human health. Therefore, mitigation measures should cover a wide range of potential negative effects. A number of forecasts have been developed in Cuba about the way in which climate change may directly or indirectly affect health and the living conditions of the population as well as the degree of deterioration to be expected. Based on such forecasts, legal instruments have been created which include actions aimed at mitigating the impact of such environmental alterations. These instruments have been carefully designed and contingency plans have been developed to reduce the damaging effect of adverse environmental phenomena on the country's human and material resources, an essential component of the national defense policy. It is the authors' opinion that there is a correspondence between the forecasts and the potential negative impact of climate change on the national territory, with a number of measures based on the country's vulnerabilities and aimed at mitigating the adverse effects of climate change events.

Palabras clave : climate change; public health; national defense.

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