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Taxonomy Archive: Heat illness/extreme temperature
20 Apr 2018 |
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Citizen’s Guide for Readiness for Climate Extremes in the Desert Southwest
This guide includes materials to help facilitate conversations and planning for extreme heat events within neighborhood groups and organizations. It is intended to provide citizens of Southern Arizona with a com- prehensive list of resources to help prepare for and build resilience in the face of extreme climate emergencies. It also ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Exposure and Maternal Health in the Face of Climate Change
Climate change will increasingly affect the health of vulnerable populations, including maternal and fetal health. This systematic review aims to identify recent literature that investigates increasing heat and extreme temperatures on pregnancy outcomes globally. We identify common research findings in order to create a comprehensive ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hold your breath
As doctors, we have a unique role to play in the places we work – urging hospitals, clinics, academic centers, and other organizations and facilities to lead by example, become role models for energy efficiency, and choose clean renewable energy sources over the ones harming our health. We can start by choosing wind and solar […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health in LA County: Opportunities for Clinical Intervention
As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify across Los Angeles County, clinicians can expect an exacerbation of many patient health problems ranging from respiratory illness to infectious diseases. Residents of LA County are especially vulnerbale to health risks associated with increasing extreme heat events, declining air ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Pheonix’s heat killed more people in 2016 than ever before
Last year was the deadliest on record for heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County, according to the Department of Public Health: 150 people are confirmed dead from heat, with five more cases pending. That’s 65 more people dead from heat than in 2015 and 89 more than in 2014. The second-deadliest year on record was 2012, […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat- What You Can Do to Prepare
Extreme heat conditions are defined as weather that is much hotter than average for a particular time and place – and sometimes more humid, too. Extreme heat is not just a nuisance; it kills hundreds of Americans every year and causes many more to become seriously ill.The heat index is a measure of how hot […]