ENBEL factsheet: Chronic kidney disease and heat stress
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This factsheet highlights chronic kidney disease of non-traditional cause (CKDnt) affects millions of outdoor manual workers in tropical environments. As global temperatures rise, more workers will be put at risk of CKDnt, increasingly a concern for workers also in EU and US.
The ENBEL research factsheet series provides accessible summaries of research findings from the projects in the ENBEL network on a wide range of climate change and health topics. The factsheets can be consulted at ENBEL's website.
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The ENBEL project supports EU policy making by bringing together leaders in climate change and health research through a network of major international health and climate research projects under the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA), Societal Challenge 1 and 5 of EU’s Horizon 2020, and other national and international funding schemes. This network develops evidence syntheses and co-produces with stakeholders a series of tailor-made knowledge products. The key thematic focus is on environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires) and climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with specific attention given to high-risk groups and populations.
Published in Climate-ADAPT Feb 19 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 04 2024