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