Heat-health action plans [[electronic resource] ] : guidance / / edited by Franziska Matthies ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Copenhagen, Denmark, : World Health Organization, Europe, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (58 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Heat waves (Meteorology) - Health aspects - Europe; Heat exhaustion - Europe - Prevention; Heat stroke - Europe - Prevention
• Altri autori: MatthiesFranziska
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1. Introduction; 2. Heat and health; 3. Heat–health action plans; References; Further reading; Web links to selected European heat–health action plans; Annex: Public health response to heat-waves: a set of information sheets
• Sommario/riassunto: Climate change is leading to variations in weather patterns and an apparent increase in extreme weather events, including heat-waves. Recent heat-waves in the WHO European Region have led to a rise in related mortality but the adverse health effects of hot weather and heat-waves are largely preventable. This guidance results from the EuroHEAT project on improving public health responses to extreme weather/heatwaves, co-funded by WHO and the European Commission. It explains the importance of the development of heat–health action plans, their characteristics and core elements, with examples f
• Titolo autorizzato: Heat-health action plans
• ISBN: 1-281-93786-X; 92-890-7197-4; 9786611937867
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777970503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Euro Nonserial Publication