The 2023 Latin America report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

Climate change is a public health issue. The Lancet Countdown: Health and Climate Change in Latin America launched in May 2020 and brings together academic institutions and UN agencies to track how climate change is affecting health across the continent, how countries are responding, and the health benefits of an accelerated response.

Building from the first report, the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown Latin America, presents 34 indicators that track the relationship between health and climate change up to 2022, aiming at providing evidence to public decision-making with the purpose of improving the health and wellbeing of Latin American populations and reducing social inequities through climate actions focusing on health.

Stella M. Hartinger, Yasna K. Palmeiro-Silva, Camila Llerena-Cayo, Luciana Blanco-Villafuerte, Luis E. Escobar, Avriel Diaz, Juliana Helo Sarmiento, Andres G. Lescano, Oscar Melo, David Rojas-Rueda, Bruno Takahashi, Max Callaghan, Francisco Chesini, Shouro Dasgupta, Carolina Gil Posse, Nelson Gouveia, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Zaray Miranda-Chacón, Nahid Mohajeri, Chrissie Pantoja, Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson, Maria Fernanda Salas, Raquel Santiago, Enzo Sauma, Mauricio Santos-Vega, Daniel Scamman, Milena Sergeeva, Tatiana Souza de Camargo, Cecilia Sorensen, Juan D. Umaña, Marisol Yglesias-González, Maria Walawender, Daniel Buss, Marina Romanello, The 2023 Latin America report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 2024, 100746, ISSN 2667-193X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2024.100746.