ENBEL factsheet: Heat, air pollution, and heart and lung disease
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This factsheet highlights how extreme heat and heat stress, in combination with air pollution (including from wildfires), may exacerbate existing health conditions and lead to death and disease.
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