Health and health facilities

A study of 800 Indonesian adolescents developed and validated a scale to assess social resilience to disasters, highlighting how individual, community and contextual factors shape resilience and how the survey process itself can help strengthen it.

A study conducted in Brazil by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) found that each additional day spent under a heat wave in São Paulo is associated with an increased risk of acute stroke in people aged 65 and older.

This perspective article introduces a novel approach to pandemic preparedness, advocating for community-participatory intelligence as a central component of health security.

Contact tracing isn’t working in the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo & the recent fatal case in Kenya is an example of this according to Dr. Jean Kaseya director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ahead of COP31, the latest Lancet Countdown report finds that the health impacts of climate change are accelerating, with heat-related deaths, drought and other climate-related risks increasing faster than a decade ago.

This Climate and Health Competency Framework defines the essential competencies needed for climate–health action across ministries, sectors, and functions of government.

Longer warm seasons means mosquitoes will become a growing public health issue, and controlling them will become increasingly crucial.

This publication presents a set of priority indicators identified by WHO, WMO, UNICEF and UNFPA to support monitoring of the impact of heat exposure on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH).

This study assessed local health system resilience in three Indonesian coastal provinces, finding post-disaster improvements in governance and coordination, but gaps in logistics and human resources, recommending strengthened crisis management integration

Most national climate adaptation plans talk about health – but there are gaps in structures and investment to achieve this crucial strand of climate policy. Policy needs to be translated into action.

Kern County has more cases of valley fever and more fossil fuel wells than anywhere else in California. A new study suggests this might not be a coincidence.

This study presents the participatory development and piloting processes of a Disaster Preparedness Checklist for health systems, designed to strengthen preparedness for Extreme Weather Events across diverse mountainous European contexts.

A 20-year study found that global exposure to wildfires and heat waves occurring on the same days rose by 287 million from 2000 to 2019, with over half the world’s population experiencing these combined events.

South Africa launched its first national Climate and Health Surveillance platform, a pioneering research and decision-support tool designed to strengthen the country’s ability to understand and respond to the growing health impacts of climate change.

A study of doctors’ experiences during the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes highlights gaps in disaster preparedness and calls for practical training, psychological support and policies that recognize healthcare workers may also be disaster survivors.

The construction industry is developing a more comprehensive approach to climate change as deadly heat waves pose growing risks to both workers and project deadlines.

Indonesia’s 2025–2030 national action plan sets out a framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the health sector, guiding government bodies and stakeholders on implementation and funding.

This guide summarizes global evidence on extreme heat and health, showing rising heat-related illness, death and economic losses, and highlighting Heat-Health Action Plans, surveillance, governance and equitable adaptation as key responses.

This executive summary synthesizes global evidence on extreme heat and health, showing rising heat-related mortality, illness and productivity losses, and highlighting surveillance, HHWSs, HHAPs, adaptation and mitigation measures.

This study provides guidance for public health authorities and event organizers to prevent and manage heat-related illness at mass gatherings, offering risk assessment tools and practical measures for safer, climate-resilient events in diverse contexts.

As health risks sensitive to changes in the climate rise in the Greater Mekong Subregion, this brief outlines the impact of compounding risks and shows how building capacity and reinforcing early warning protocols can strengthen regional resilience.

Indonesia is aligning policies and strengthening intra-government coordination to address the growing health risks of climate change.

The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) experts have identified ten key trends influencing heat action, driving the focus and prioritizing action for the Network and its numerous global, regional and national partners.

This study shows global evidence on climate change’s impact on the health and wellbeing of indigenous children, highlighting five interconnected outcomes, calling for culturally grounded, geographically diverse, and child-centred climate-health research.

This research describes experiences of individuals working in, residing in, and providing disaster response to long-term care (LTC) settings in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria.

This paper examines the impact of Hurricane Harvey on home health (HH) care in Texas, linking 2017-2018 patient-level Medicare HH claims with county-level data on disaster declarations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

This study suggests that wildland-urban interface (WUI) disasters create a distinct post-disaster exposure regime characterised by persistent internal metal mixtures associated with pulmonary impairment months after the event.

Conclusions from the ILO Meeting of Experts on occupational safety and health in extreme weather events and changing weather patterns, providing guidance on prevention, preparedness, risk assessment, early warning, workplace measures and resilience.

Experiences of garment workers in this study show that extreme heat is not just uncomfortable but determines health, mental well-being, productivity, and livelihood. Yet workplace regulations and climate responses remain poorly equipped to address risks.

This review examines climate change in Türkiye, its effects on health and cancer care, and the role of oncology nurses in adaptation, disaster preparedness, environmental health awareness, and supporting patients during climate-related crises.

This paper analyses 18 global case studies of healthcare systems facing extreme weather events and identifies four resilience pathways, showing that resilience depends on cross-scale adaptive capacity, coordination, workforce support and recovery systems.

This scoping review of 176 studies from 41 countries found that heatwave-associated deaths are rarely coded as direct heat-related, while surveillance systems remain fragmented, highlighting the need for standardized and integrated monitoring.

This NDMA guide integrates psychosocial support into disaster management in Pakistan, emphasizing that early, inclusive PSS is key for mental health, resilience, and recovery—advocating MHPSS as central to sustainable development, not a stand-alone add-on

A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the majority of Americans believe climate change is increasing the risk of respiratory diseases and heat- and insect-related illnesses.

This paper estimates that epidemics were associated with an average annual loss of 17,549 health workers globally from 1990 to 2019, with the greatest burden in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and lower-income countries.

This article extends debates at the intersection of infrastructure, adaptation, and vulnerability by exploring everyday practices of climate adaptation through people’s attempts to weatherize their houses during climate-related emergencies.

Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.

More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.

This Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment (CHVA) sets out to understand how climate change is affecting health outcomes and Tunisia’s health system, and what opportunities exist for health system adaptation.

Given its speed, scale and scope, the Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease that broke out in the DRC in mid-2026 could become a global epidemic. Preventing a fast-spreading outbreak that has already taken over a large geographical region is difficult.

Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?

This research examines how geographic spread approaches can be adapted to account for the specific travel patterns and epidemiological context of the DRC–Uganda border. A geographic spread approach is used to estimate the burden of infectious disease.

As heat overlaps with other intensifying climate events, scientists are uncovering how they compound each other – and how cities can adapt

An increase in pollution from wildfires and heatwaves risks undermining international efforts to improve air quality and protect human and ecosystem health, according to a new WMO report, which traces interlinkages between air quality and climate.