Health and health facilities

The authors reviewed 55 city climate adaptation plans from 2016 to 2024 for health comprehensiveness, dimensions of health (physical, mental and social), equity and vulnerability, and implementation readiness.

This document investigates the increasing burden of communicable diseases in Bangladesh - which can be attributable to rapid urbanization, with nearly 50% of all slum dwellers of the country living in the Dhaka division alone.

New research offers both a warning and steps people everywhere can take to protect their homes and themselves from wildfire smoke in the future.

This paper aims to examine the mental health impacts of the 2022 catastrophic flooding in Italy's Marche region by assessing levels of psychological distress among directly affected residents and comparing them with a non-affected control group.

In a paper published in Science Advances, researchers at UC Santa Barbara looked at the effect of prenatal exposure to extremely hot, humid conditions on the health of children in South Asia

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by a flesh-eating bacteria, made headlines. Infections of this kind are on the rise as ocean temperatures surge higher and marine heat waves increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change.

Socioeconomic factors drive how much extreme heat public transit users in Chicago, NYC, and Washington, D.C., experience as they walk to and from metro stations.