A Stitch in Time: Improving Public Health Early Warning Systems for Extreme Weather Events

Ebi, Kristie L.; Schmier, Jordana K.

doi:10.1093/epirev/mxi006

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“…Integration of environmental parameters into disease forecasting and warning systems could allow public health officials to alert the populace when specific meteorological conditions pose predictable risks to health (27). Simple messages about proper food preparation and refrigeration and the risks of using contaminated recreational waters could, for example, be provided before, during, and after extreme events.…”

Section: Climate Change Extreme Weather Events and Disease Seasonalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mystery of Seasonality: Getting the Rhythm of Nature

Naumova

2006

J Public Health Pol

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Seasonality, a systematic periodic occurrence of events over the course of a year, is a well-known phenomenon in life and health sciences. Understanding seasonal fluctuations in diseases patterns presents us with a major challenge. To develop efficient strategies for disease prevention and control, we need to grasp the main determinants of temporal variations and their interactions. This paper will introduce the notion of seasonality by outlining several of its factors, using as illustrations respiratory and enteric water-or food-borne infections.

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Section: Climate Change Extreme Weather Events and Disease Seasonalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mystery of Seasonality: Getting the Rhythm of Nature

Naumova

2006

J Public Health Pol

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“…Continue developing and improving heat-related warning systems (24,25,48,49,75,93). Work with social service and housing agencies to ensure that isolated populations have access to air conditioning during heat waves.…”

Section: Recommendations For Local Health Departmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing the U.S. Health Community for Climate Change

Jackson

Shields

2008

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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In society's effort to address and prepare for climate change, the health community itself must ensure that it is prepared. Health personnel will require flexible and iterative action plans to address climate change at the individual, hospital, local health department, state, and national levels. This requires that health workers analyze the impact of climate change with a view to human health, and then formulate robust policy and demonstrate authentic leadership. In this review, we summarize the status of the health community's preparation for climate change and provide specific recommendations for action at each level. Although preparation status and recommendations vary, our observation is that it is not enough for public health and medical care agencies and departments to develop policies and advocate change. They have a direct responsibility to demonstrate substantive leadership.

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“…Many authors have investigated the relationship between extreme weather events (heat waves) and health, underlining the benefits of heat-warning systems [22,25]: this study shows the relationship between weather and health during ordinary weather conditions, and the benefits of supporting health structures with biometeorological forecasts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Urban morbidity in summer: ambulance dispatch data, periodicity and weather

Petralli¹,

Morabito²,

Crisci

et al. 2012

Open Medicine

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AbstractOver recent years the impact of weather on human health has become more severe, especially for people living in urban areas. Even though many studies have analysed the impact of weather on human mortality, few have quantified the impact of heat on morbidity, including ambulance response calls. In this study, 13,354 calls collected in the city of Florence (Italy) during summer were analyzed by month, day of the week, hour, and time slot of the day. An objective air mass classification was used to classify days and time slots with similar weather characteristics and a multiple variable analysis was applied to evaluate the relationship between emergency calls and weather. A positive trend was observed in the morning and a negative one during the night for all emergency calls, but only for food poisoning and alcoholic diseases. Calls for cardiovascular events increased in the morning and on hot days. Calls for psychiatric disorders rose significantly with temperature during the afternoon. The total number of calls and those for alcoholic diseases rose during the hottest nights. Our results, which show a clear relationship between ambulance response calls, periodicity, and weather, could contribute to an understanding the impact of weather on morbidity.

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A Stitch in Time: Improving Public Health Early Warning Systems for Extreme Weather Events

Cited by 88 publications

References 14 publications

Mystery of Seasonality: Getting the Rhythm of Nature

Mystery of Seasonality: Getting the Rhythm of Nature

Preparing the U.S. Health Community for Climate Change

Urban morbidity in summer: ambulance dispatch data, periodicity and weather

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