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The ENBEL project, that brings together climate change and health researchers, has made a series of five short educational videos to give more information on how climate change effects our health and what we can do about it.
Extreme temperature and heat waves have an impact on human health. It is important to translate research on this topic into public health adaptation measures and prevention plans such as heat health adaptation plans. In this educational video (3/6), Dr. Francesca de’Donato from the Department of Epidemiology at the Lazio Regional Health Service in Rome, Italy, takes us through core elements of heat health adaptation plans that aims to reduce the risks for peoples’ health during heat waves and extreme temperatures. She also talks about what people are most vulnerable to heat and extreme temperatures and the importance of knowing who these people are.
The topics covered by the other four educational videos are air pollution, vulnerable groups and minorities, costs of climate change, protection of workers in a changing climate and the CHANCE network for climate change and health in Africa.
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Video 4/6 on valuation of climate change health effects
Video 5/6 on protecting workers in a changing climate
Video 6/6 on the CHANCE network for collaboration in/with Africa
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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 Jan 16, 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 4, 2024
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