Heat Waves and Human Health: Key Messages

Heat Waves and Human Health: Key Messages
"Emerging evidence and experience to inform risk management in a warming world."   In the last three decades, the Earth has experienced record hot temperatures, with 2017 being the third warmest year in recorded history. Rising temperatures can create deadly conditions for vulnerable populations, while also threatening food security, increasing demand for water and energy, and straining public services. The key messages of this report from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project summarize scientific efforts to better understand and manage the risks of extreme heat on human wellbeing. Also provided is a review of available heat wave early warning systems around the world, and recommendations for advancing research to develop tools and climate-resilient systems that are adaptive, contextually appropriate, and able to improve the capacity of health professionals and policymakers to safeguard human health in a warming world. To read the full form of this USAID Technical Report, please click here. To learn about World Bank climate resiliency systems and risk screening tools, please click here and here.
  • Learning Mode: 
    Knowledge Note
  • Topics: Climate Change, Climate Science, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Adaptation Impacts, Climate Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas, Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas, Community-Based Climate Adaptation, Climate Risk Screening, Climate Resilient Development, Health Systems, Health
  • Regions: 
    Africa, India, Kenya, West Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, Other
  • GP: 
    Climate Change, Healthy Societies
  • Keywords: 
    Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Action Plan, Climate Change Forecasts, Climate Change Risk Management, Heat waves, rising temperature, rising temperatures, Food Security, Energy, Water, thermal energy, urban heat island effect, extreme heat, human wellbeing, heat early warning system, heat early warning systems, climate resiliency, climate resilient systems, Warmer world, Rising Global Temperature, Green House Gases, Climate Changes and their Impacts, Possible 21st Century Climates, Life in a Warmer World, climate warning systems, Disaster, Health, human health, Resilience, Global Heat Health Information Network, heat wave early warning systems, heat-health action plan
  • Language: 
    English

Resources

https://www.climatelinks.org/resources/heat-waves-and-human-health-emerging-evidence-and-experience-inform-risk-management
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