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      Global risk of deadly heat

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          Impact of regional climate change on human health.

          Jonathan A. Patz, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Tracey Holloway … (2005)
          The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives annually. Many prevalent human diseases are linked to climate fluctuations, from cardiovascular mortality and respiratory illnesses due to heatwaves, to altered transmission of infectious diseases and malnutrition from crop failures. Uncertainty remains in attributing the expansion or resurgence of diseases to climate change, owing to lack of long-term, high-quality data sets as well as the large influence of socio-economic factors and changes in immunity and drug resistance. Here we review the growing evidence that climate-health relationships pose increasing health risks under future projections of climate change and that the warming trend over recent decades has already contributed to increased morbidity and mortality in many regions of the world. Potentially vulnerable regions include the temperate latitudes, which are projected to warm disproportionately, the regions around the Pacific and Indian oceans that are currently subjected to large rainfall variability due to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation sub-Saharan Africa and sprawling cities where the urban heat island effect could intensify extreme climatic events.
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            Heat Stroke

            Abderrezak Bouchama, James Knochel (2002)
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              Heat stress and public health: a critical review.

              R. Sari Kovats, Shakoor Hajat (2008)
              Heat is an environmental and occupational hazard. The prevention of deaths in the community caused by extreme high temperatures (heat waves) is now an issue of public health concern. The risk of heat-related mortality increases with natural aging, but persons with particular social and/or physical vulnerability are also at risk. Important differences in vulnerability exist between populations, depending on climate, culture, infrastructure (housing), and other factors. Public health measures include health promotion and heat wave warning systems, but the effectiveness of acute measures in response to heat waves has not yet been formally evaluated. Climate change will increase the frequency and the intensity of heat waves, and a range of measures, including improvements to housing, management of chronic diseases, and institutional care of the elderly and the vulnerable, will need to be developed to reduce health impacts.
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                Title: Nature Climate Change
                Abbreviated Title: Nature Climate change
                Publisher: Springer Nature
                ISSN (Print): 1758-678X
                ISSN (Electronic): 1758-6798
                Publication date Created: June 19 2017
                Publication date (Print): June 19 2017
                Volume: 7
                Issue: 7
                Pages: 501-506
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                DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3322
                SO-VID: 4a3afb9a-db7f-4378-baeb-b9c876ab370b
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