Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heat waves (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Author: United GovernmentPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475059038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Excessive heat events (EHEs) are and will continue to be a fact of life in the United States. These events are a public health threat because they often increase the number of daily deaths (mortality) and other nonfatal adverse health outcomes (morbidity) in affected populations. Distinct groups within the population, generally those who are older, very young, or poor, or have physical challenges or mental impairments, are at elevated risk for experiencing EHE-attributable health problems. However, because EHEs can be accurately forecasted and a number of low cost but effective responses are well understood, future health impacts of EHEs could be reduced. This guidebook provides critical information that local public health officials and others need to begin assessing their EHE vulnerability and developing and implementing EHE notification and response programs.
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Author: Extreme Heat Events Guidelines, Technical Guide for Health Care Workers
Author: Aware
Author: Climate Change and Public Health
Author: Barry S. LevyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197683290
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Now updated with key developments in mitigation and adaptation from the last decade, Climate Change and Public Health, Second Edition offers an engaging overview of climate change and its health consequences alongside evolving methods for climate resilience.
Contemporary Readings in Social Problems
Author: Anna Leon-GuerreroPublisher: Pine Forge Press
ISBN: 1412965306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Companion reader to Anna Leon-Guerrero's Social Problems - 2nd Edition.
Losing Our Cool
Author: Stan CoxPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586024
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world’s hot zones—from Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern India—Cox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is designed to help us endure, providing a potent commercial stimulant, making possible an impossible commuter economy, and altering migration patterns (air-conditioning has helped alter the political hue of the United States by enabling a population boom in the red-state Sun Belt). While the book proves that the planet’s atmosphere cannot sustain even our current use of air-conditioning, it also makes a much more positive argument that loosening our attachment to refrigerated air could bring benefits to humans and the planet that go well beyond averting a climate crisis. Though it saves lives in heat waves, air-conditioning may also be altering our bodies’ sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex drive. Air-conditioning has eroded social bonds and thwarted childhood adventure; it has transformed the ways we eat, sleep, travel, work, buy, relax, vote, and make both love and war. The final chapter surveys the many alternatives to conventional central air-conditioning. By reintroducing some traditional cooling methods, putting newly emerging technologies into practice, and getting beyond industrial definitions of comfort, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too.
Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine
Author: Kristi L. KoenigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040752
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
This is the definitive reference on disaster medicine, outlining areas of proficiency for health care professionals handling mass casualty crises.