Climate Change and Health in Colombia Tam Tran, Salua Osorio Mrad, and Gilma C. Mantilla Contents Introduction ...................................................................................... 196 Background ...................................................................................... 197 Climate .......................................................................................... 198 Climate Change Impacts ........................................................................ 199 Climate Change Impacts on Health ............................................................ 200 Policies on Health and Climate Change ........................................................ 204 Climate Change Policy Framework ......................................................... 204 Climate and Health Policy .................................................................. 207 Conclusion ....................................................................................... 210 References ....................................................................................... 210 Abstract As the impacts of climate change become more widely acknowledged, federal governments are beginning to address the subject in the national agenda. How- ever, the difficulty in determining the magnitude and impacts of climate change has led to challenges in policy-making. This chapter seeks to create a T. Tran (*) International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA e-mail: mytamtran@gmail.com S.O. Mrad Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia e-mail: sosorio@ins.gov.co; salua_osorio@hotmail.com G.C. Mantilla International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA Centro de Estudios e Investigacio ´n en Salud, Fundacio ´n Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia e-mail: mantilla@iri.columbia.edu; gcmc1021@gmail.com # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 W. Leal Filho (ed.), Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_70 195