ReviewEnvironmental health : a global access science source2017
Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems.
Review in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effects of Climate Change on Health and Health Systems: A Systematic Review of Preparedness, Resilience, and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Features Forecasting Patient Arrival Numbers.Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · 2025Pooled it
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- Heat-related deaths in social care in England: can the Care Quality Commission ratings system be used to identify care homes that would benefit most from heat adaptation measures?Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Exploring the role of extreme climate events (ECEs) in the incidence of respiratory disease in South Africa.International journal of biometeorology · 2026Article
- Wildfire smoke and pediatric asthma control in the Northeastern United States: a cross-sectional study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2025Article
- Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life.Weather and climate extremes · 2025Article
- Environmental Stressors and Neuroinflammation: Linking Climate Change to Alzheimer's Disease.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Unified 0.25-degree gridded infrastructure-critical extreme weather for the United States from 1979 to 2100.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Bridging the Gap Between Climate and Health Systems: The Value of Resilience in Facing Extreme Weather Events.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Extreme Temperatures, Hospital Utilization and Public Health Insurance Spending.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- Strategies and responses to the effects of Climate Change on health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Health perceptions of adverse weather in older adults in England: analysis of 2019/20 survey data.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Frontline clinic perspectives on climate change, human health, and resilience: a national cross-sectional survey.BMC primary care · 2024Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate change. Extreme weather events considered include heatwaves, coldwaves and flooding. Using a structured review method, we consider evidence regarding the currently observed and anticipated future impacts of extreme weather on health and social care systems and the potential of preparedness and adaptation measures that may enhance resilience. We highlight a number of general conclusions which are likely to be of international relevance, although the review focussed on the situation in the UK. Extreme weather events impact the operation of health services through the effects on built, social and institutional infrastructures which support health and health care, and also because of changes in service demand as extreme weather impacts on human health. Strategic planning for extreme weather and impacts on the care system should be sensitive to within country variations. Adaptation will require changes to built infrastructure systems (including transport and utilities as well as individual care facilities) and also to institutional and social infrastructure supporting the health care system. Care sector organisations, communities and individuals need to adapt their practices to improve resilience of health and health care to extreme weather. Preparedness and emergency response strategies call for action extending beyond the emergency response services, to include health and social care providers more generally.
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