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Climate and Health

Resources

Summer Heat Emergency Data and Prevention Tips
NCDHHS DPH Summer Heat and Emergency Data including the weekly heat report
Climate and Health
NCDHHS DPH Climate and Health Program: current initiatives and resources
NC Clinicians for Climate Action: NCCCA
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) Tool
To assess risk for heat related illness: Convergence of Climate – Health - Vulnerabilities, UNC - Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Tool
Southeast Regional Climate Center
North Carolina Farmworker Health Program
North Carolina Farmworker Health Program: especially heat related illness prevention and treatment
Extreme heat prompts effort to protect farmworkers and other laborers
U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms
Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan
Update: Heat Illness, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2020
A Public Health Response to a Changing Climate
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health – resources and courses