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Bookmark or Share- Heatwaves - World Health Organization (WHO)Heatwaves are among the most dangerous of natural hazards, but rarely receive adequate attention because their death tolls and destruction are not always immediately obvious. A study found that from 2000–2019 approximately 489 000 heat-related deaths occurred each year, including more than 70 000 who died during the 2003 heatwave in Europe.
- Heatwaves and Health: Guidance on Warning-System DevelopmentHEATWAVES AND HEALTH: GUIDANCE ON WARNING-SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT vii FOREWORD Heatwaves are among the most dangerous of natural hazards, but rarely receive adequate attention. They often lack the spectacular and sudden violence of other hazards, such as tropical cyclones or flash floods. Even the related death tolls are not always immediately obvious.
- Heatwaves: How to stay cool - World Health Organization (WHO)During a heatwave you should aim to keep your living space cool. Check the room temperature between 08:00 and 10:00, at 13:00 and at night after 22:00.
- Heatwave in Europe: local resilience saves lives – global collaboration ...Unprecedented. Frightening. Apocalyptic. These are just some of the adjectives used in news reports as vast swathes of the WHO European Region suffer from ferocious wildfires and record-breaking high temperatures amid an ongoing, protracted heatwave. Climate change is not new. Its consequences, however, are mounting season after season, year after year, with disastrous outcomes.Heat kills ...
- Heat waves - World Health Organization (WHO)Heatwaves can acutely impact large populations for short periods of time, often trigger public health emergencies, and result in excess mortality, and cascading socioeconomic impacts (e.g. lost work capacity and labor productivity).
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