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Key messages. People are unnecessarily sufering and dying in the heat, with population health and community vulnerability often unrecognised. Other heat-related efects include reduced occupational health and productivity, and increased sports illnesses and injuries.
The first paper in this Series outlined the negative health efects of human heat stress, and the greater health risk associated with the increased exposure to extreme heat and hot weather projected with climate change.1 In many countries, extended bouts of very hot weather (ie, heatwaves) are already responsible for more deaths than all other na...
30 Νοε 2022 · PDF | Temperature extremes vary across Africa. A continent-wide examination of the impacts of heat on health in Africa, and a synthesis of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
21 Αυγ 2021 · Extreme heat events are becoming permanent features of summer seasons worldwide, causing many excess deaths. Heat-related morbidity and mortality are projected to increase further as climate change progresses, with greater risk associated with higher degrees of global warming.
15 Μαΐ 2024 · Health risks from heat include cardiovascular events, respiratory conditions, kidney disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes, increased anxiety and depression, increased suicidality, and aggressive...
Health risks of extreme heat. Risks are high, and rising in line with global temperatures. Correspondence to: R Perera rafael.perera@phc.ox.ac.uk. Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n2438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2438. Published: 07 October 2021. Radhika Khosla, 1, 2 Anant Jani, 2 Rafael Perera2, 3.
What Is an Extreme Heat Event? While there is no single agreed upon definition of an extreme heat event, most definitions refer to an extended period of time (several days or more) with unusually hot weather conditions that potentially can harm human health.5.
