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Communicating the health risks of extreme heat events toolkit for public health and emergency management officials

Abstract: This Toolkit is intended for use by public health and emergency management officials who are developing or updating heat-health communication strategies. It is designed to gide the development of targeted heat-health communication campaigns and necessary outreach products for specific audiences.To this end the Toolkit provides: 1.) An overivew of extreme heat events and the potential health risks to all Canadians, especially those most vulnerable to heat-health impacts 2.) Guidance on communicating heat-health risks and strategies, including scienifically sound health messages to support the development of effective communication strategies 3.) Guidance to help develop community-specific and tailored heat-health communication campaigns 4.) Template materials for public health and emergency management officials, such as fact sheets, a media release and checklists.

Author: Water, Air and Climate Change Bureau Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch

Resource URL: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/hcan-scan/communicating_extreme_heat_events-ef/H128-1-10-623-eng.pdf