Healthcare supply chains both affected by, and affecting, climate change

Climate change is having real-world impacts on demand for healthcare products and on the supply chains for these products, US-based global public health consultancy JSI Health Logistics director Ed Wilson highlighted at the forty-fifth annual SAPICS Conference, in Cape Town, on Monday. And healthcare supply chains are affecting climate change. The impact of climate change was seen in phenomena including increasing temperatures and rising sea levels, he pointed out. These, and other phenomena, such as droughts, have had an impact on health vectors by, for example, shifting the geographic footprints of various diseases. Thus, Malaria incidence is increasing in highland areas of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and transmission periods for this disease are increasing. And, in other places, increased flooding has resulted in increasing incidences of cholera.

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