[PDF] Top 20 Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems

... More sustainable solutions [100] including attention to building mass and orientation may be used to positive effect, as has been done in the past [29]. Refurbishment of existing hospital buildings could improve thermal ... See full document

... the impact of climate change is likely to worsen markedly in the coming decades in many parts of the world including ...Several climate change adaptation policies should be developed ... See full document

... from change in land use patterns and during this period global population increases by ...high-impact climate extremes during the 2001–2010 decade that was the warmest since the start of modern ... See full document

... removal systems, leading to cross-contamination of sewage and drinking water ...to health care facilities resulting in treatable conditions such as diarrhoea remaining untreated—this is significant ... See full document

... improving health across the life course and mitigating health care ...SDOHs: climate change. Climate change (also called global warming) is arguably one of the greatest ... See full document

... legal, social, health, cultural, educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional measures that prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness ... See full document

... Fig. 1. Exposure to drought, land uses and future changes of drought in CMIP5 projections. (a) Physical exposure to drought measured by the number of persons exposed to drought per year over 1980–2001. (b) Economic ... See full document

... by extreme events such as flooding, drought or any environmental change; hence, there exist a rela- tionship between flooding and food (in) ...of climate change induced extreme ... See full document

... on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the CGIAR Research Program on ...to Climate Change (AAFCC) of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research ... See full document

... a change in frequency, magni- tude, or duration of biophysical interactions with human systems or other biophysical variables ...of impact an exposure may have on a biophysical or human system [ 26, ... See full document

... following extreme events were computed and compared for observed and synthetic daily weather: (1) yearly maxima of daily precipitation, (2) yearly max- ima of daily maximum temperature and (3) yearly ... See full document

... wider health and environmental costs of milk formula displacing ...provide care for others is treated as limitless, because women’s time is seen as free ... See full document

... of extreme events and climate change on reservoir inflow is important for water and power stressed ...Projected climate is subject to uncertainties related to climate ... See full document

... However, the effects of weather should not be overem- phasised. In fact, Auckland gets more annual sunshine and less temperature extremes compared to European cities, yet the city has a much lower level of cycling ... See full document

... severe weather and climate extreme events which affect countries in the Western ...large-scale climate phenomenon that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean and has two distinctly ... See full document

... Osun State is one of the thirty-six states of Nigeria. It is divided into 30 local government areas (LGAs) compris- ing both rural and urban communities. The vegetation is of a tropical rain-forest type, which could be ... See full document

... a social level, images can come to constitute cul- turally shared symbols of abstract issues, such as climate change, in particular cultural settings (Moscovici and Hewstone, ...of climate ... See full document

... The geology of Arunachal Pradesh is very complex as it exhibits three different mountain systems of different origin in juxtaposition. These are : i) the Himalayan Ranges, ii) the Mishmi Hill Ranges, and iii) the ... See full document

... extreme events often play a critical role in maintaining the structure and function of many ecosystems and life history strategies (Attiwill, 1994; McMahon et ...clone events leading to increased ... See full document

... that climate change is expected to have on the energy performance of a residential building in Kaunas, Lithuania, essentially due to changes in heating and cooling ...on Climate Change) ... See full document