Health & health facilities

Capacity of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, including biological hazards.

Latest Health & health facilities additions in the Knowledge Base

An Emory University study published Feb. 15 in Nature Mental Health shows wildfires lead to an increase of anxiety-related emergency department visits in the western United States.
Emory University
Tackling these compounding crises and strengthening healthcare could stop the ancient killer spreading into new territories.
Telegraph Media Group Limited
Researchers say poor urban design is creating pockets of heat and humidity in Brisbane. The Sweltering Cities panel found a lack of trees, shade, and water were intensifying temperatures on heat islands.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Research in Southeast Asia quantifies how much wildfire smoke hurts peoples’ moods; finds the effect is greater when fires originate in other countries.
Massachussets Institute of Technology
Wildfire, Thailand
About half of Maui residents impacted by the August wildfires say their health is worse now compared to a year ago and more than half say they lost their jobs because of the fires.
University of Hawai'i
Young girls carrying water in Somalia
The recent rains that hit Somalia in October and November 2023 have impacted Somalia heavily, causing flooding. These torrential rains destroyed roads, bridges, farmland, and basic infrastructures. Particularly in water infrastructures.
Flood Resilience Portal
Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months when the world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heat wave would spell trouble for organizers.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
In California, days that experienced both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time have seen disproportionate numbers of hospitalizations for heart and lung ailments, a new study found.
New York Times, the

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