ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the main advances and results of research made in the development of specific methodological approaches to analyzing weather, adaptation to climate change and climate variability in a human context during the past decade. This chapter also discusses the main results of a Health Watch and Warning and Bioclimatic Prediction System developed for Cuba. Using scenarios of climate change for different diseases studied, this model may be used to estimate the impact of climate variability and change. Finally, this chapter measures vulnerability to adaptations and the expected cost of different adaptations to the impact of climate change.
