Planning to Reduce the Health Impacts of Extreme Heat: A Content Analysis of Heat Action Plans in Local United States JurisdictionsUNITED StatesHEATPHYSIOLOGICAL effects of heatCOGNITIONPUBLIC healthEMERGENCY managementRISK assessmentCOMMUNICATIONDISEASE prevalence...
Certain groups are especially vulnerable to the impacts of extreme heat including elderly adults, children and those with preexisting conditions, according tothe American Psychiatric Association. However, anyone can be vulnerable to extreme heat. To manage heat, experts said they...
"On days of extreme heat, it is important that we each take the precautions necessary to take care of ourselves and our loved ones," he says, which can include checking on neighbors or family members who may be susceptible to health impacts of heat exposure. For the study, Nori-Sarma and...
The independent and synergistic impacts of power outages and floods on hospital admissions for multiple diseases. Sci. Total Environ. 828, 154305 (2022). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar US Census Bureau. Poverty status in the past 12 months. https://data.census.gov/ Arizona State University...
The paper calls for more effective preventive measures to be in place to decrease vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacity to adverse health impacts of climate change.
"These different data sets must be integrated in order to confidently answer complicated but important questions about the possible impacts of ground-level ozone on the incidence of asthma in underserved urban communities during summer months," Garman said. "An early success of our Breakthroughs colla...
It is widely acknowledged that the climate is warming globally and within the UK. In this paper, studies which assess the direct impact of current increased temperatures and heat-waves on health and those which project future health impacts of heat under
Cognitive consequences of sleep deprivation, shiftwork, and heat exposure for underground miners. Appl Ergon. 2017;58:144–50. Article PubMed Google Scholar Schmitt LH, Graham HM, White PC. Economic evaluations of the health impacts of weather-related extreme events: a scoping review. Int J ...
Adverse impacts on health due to extreme weather and vector-borne disease risks could increase in the United Kingdom (UK) under a warming climate, according to a report published on Monday by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The report, written by 90 experts, is based on climate pro...
Impact of extreme heat on the wider networks of built in- frastructure and utilities supporting health care systems are generally insignificant given the levels of extreme tem- peratures observed to date in the UK [37–39]. Health care activity impacts of heatwaves in the UK depend on the ...