Thus, thresholds that induce negative health responses vary from one city to another, as well as over the season cycle at any one city. Warning system development involves a clear and consistent nomenclature (e.g. heat advisory, excessive heat warning), coordination between the agency issuing ...
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2011, 8: 4679-4701. 10.3390/ijerph8124679. Article Google Scholar Kalkstein AJ, Sheridan SC: The social impacts of the heat-health watch/warning system in Phoenix, Arizona: assessing the perceived risk and response of the public. Int J Biometeorol. 2007, ...
The new National Weather Service (NWS) Heat/Health Watch/Warning System (HHWS) has been implemented in a total of 17 locations covering 26 U.S. cities with a half million population or greater. Each location where the new system has been put in place has involved an extensive and ongoing ...
According to the paper, entitled "The effects of climate change on our health and healthsystem," the research by experts of Hungarian National Public Health Institute reveals "significant associations between daily mean temperature and mortality." A three-level heat health warning system based on the...
The Shanghai heat wave/health warning system is introduced. The Spatial Synoptic Classification (SSC) is used as the methodology for determination of the air mass classification using the daily meteorological observation data (1989-1998) in the system, and the ten-year-long air mass calendars is...
The social impacts of the heat-health watch/warning system in Phoenix, Arizona: assessing the perceived risk and response of the public Int. J. Biometeorol., 52 (2007), pp. 43-55 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar El Paso cooling centers extends hours of operation to help residents face ...
Heat Watch/Warning Systems Save Lives: Estimated Costs and Benefits for Philadelphia 1995–98.The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hot Weather–Health Watch/Warning System was initiated in 1995 to alert the city's population to take precautionary actions when hot weather posed risks to health. The number...
Public Health England Heatwave plan for England: protecting health and reducing harm from severe heat and heatwaves, London https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/429384/Heatwave_Main_Plan_2015.pdf (2015) Google Scholar [9] A. De Bono, G. Giuliani, S. Klus...
Lam CKC, Loughnan M, Tapper N (2013) An exploration of temperature metrics for further developing the heat-health weather warning system in Hong Kong. ISRN Atmos Sci. doi:10.1155/2013/930238Lam CKC, Loughnan M, Tapper N (2013) An exploration of temperature metrics for further developing the ...
Heat health warning systems continue to evolve to include the addition of a broad range of meteorological and epidemiological predictive data. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hot Weather Health Watch Warning System (PWWS) (see Fig. 13-4) was developed in part as a result of an historical heat ...