Extreme Heat Preparedness and Human Health - GeoHealth Early Career Webinar

Extreme Heat Preparedness and Human Health - GeoHealth Early Career Webinar

AGU via YouTube Direct link

Intro

1 of 29

1 of 29

Intro

Class Central Classrooms beta

YouTube videos curated by Class Central.

Classroom Contents

Extreme Heat Preparedness and Human Health - GeoHealth Early Career Webinar

Automatically move to the next video in the Classroom when playback concludes

  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Why is climate change a threat to health?
  3. 3 Environment and health in India
  4. 4 How this project began...
  5. 5 How many people die due to extreme heat?
  6. 6 May 2010 heat wave, Ahmedabad mortalities
  7. 7 Policy implications of this work
  8. 8 Heat Action Plan (HAP), 2013
  9. 9 Collection of existing registry data
  10. 10 Availability of meteorological data
  11. 11 Approaches . Temperature and mortality - generalized additive model
  12. 12 Single-day temperature and mortality
  13. 13 Identification and characterization of heat waves
  14. 14 Heat wave characteristics, by community (97POT)
  15. 15 Community-specific heat wave- mortality relationships
  16. 16 Regional health effect estimate
  17. 17 Potential heat wave definitions
  18. 18 Propensity score matching
  19. 19 Attributable deaths and relative risk of mortality
  20. 20 Jaipur-specific estimates
  21. 21 Heat wave days / year vs population- adjusted attributable deaths
  22. 22 Evaluation of existing heat action plans
  23. 23 City of Boston, Climate Adaptation Plan
  24. 24 Example of adaptation strategy - cooling centers
  25. 25 Access to cooling centers
  26. 26 Similar methods can be used across different types of resources or urban characteristics to evaluate community resilience & preparedness
  27. 27 Locally-relevant protective measures
  28. 28 Relocating the maternity ward impacted health among neonates
  29. 29 Conclusions

Never Stop Learning.

Get personalized course recommendations, track subjects and courses with reminders, and more.

Someone learning on their laptop while sitting on the floor.