Climate Change as a Health Security Threat in Pakistan: Preparing Health Systems for Extreme Events
Tayyab Mansoor Akhtar, Hashaam Akhtar, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Zahra Hassan · 2026
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Akhtar and co-authors frame climate change as a direct health security threat, in this 2026 policy analysis of Pakistan. The country now ranks as the world's most climate-vulnerable on the Germanwatch index. Recurrent floods from 2022 to 2025 affected more than 26 million people. The floods damaged health facilities and interrupted basic services across the country.
The authors trace how each shock multiplies existing weaknesses: surges in malaria and waterborne disease, worsening child malnutrition, rising antimicrobial resistance, and displacement into crowded informal settlements where drug-resistant typhoid spreads. Roughly a thousand people died in the 2025 floods alone, and total damage exceeded 30 billion US dollars by the estimates cited. Their prescription has four parts. One is climate-resilient health infrastructure. The others are digital and geospatial disease surveillance, prevention-first primary care, and a One Health framework. That framework joins human, animal, and environmental health planning.
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| CREATOR | Tayyab Mansoor Akhtar, Hashaam Akhtar, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Zahra Hassan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |