Health & health facilities

From fields to fryers, a warming planet is intensifying occupational health and safety threats to low-wage workers across the food chain.

A new study shows that even on days where there is no official heatwave warning, the threat from heat remains. The authors showed the association of a newly formulated India heat index (IHI) with daily all-cause mortality in the three cities.

More than two-thirds of workers have been exposed to excessive heat while doing their jobs, according to a new U.N. report, but few countries have taken steps to protect them as climate change makes heatwaves more frequent and intense.

Proactive measures to protect people well before a heat wave are important because illness and death from heat are largely preventable. Caroline Metz is leading the development of a new heat resilience tool to help municipalities address their heat risk.

Three southern African nations — Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe — declared drought as a national disaster between February and April, 2024.

This paper categorizes and analyzes concerns during heat waves, from heat-related illnesses to mental health issues. These findings provide valuable insights into how different health concerns are distributed across gender, user type, and age.

The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown Latin America, presents 34 indicators that track the relationship between health and climate change up to 2022.

The results, published in the journal Earth’s Future, suggest significant and widespread effects on air quality, climate, health, and economics under the most extreme wildfire scenarios.