Extreme Heat Can Impact Our Health in Many Ways
- Abstract
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health issues and reduce the risk of harm.
- Resource Type
- Factsheet/pamphlet
- Author
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Date
- 2016
- Institution
- American Public Health Association
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Heat
- Solutions
- Active transportation Behavior change Climate adaptation/resilience
- Other
- Vulnerable populations