Heat related morbidity and mortality, especially during extreme heat events, are increasing
due to climate change. More Americans die from heat than from all other natural disasters …

Climate change is recognized as a major contributor to the increase in heat-related deaths,
and the frequency of heatwave days is expected to continue rising in the future. Addressing …

Adverse health outcomes caused by extreme heat represent the most direct human health
threat associated with the warming of the Earth's climate. Socioeconomic, demographic …

Background Although the frequency and magnitude of climate change-related health
hazards (CCRHHs) are likely to increase, the population vulnerabilities and corresponding …

Background: Extreme heat poses current and future risks to human health. Heat vulnerability
indices (HVIs), commonly developed using principal components analysis (PCA), are …

Rapid 21st century urbanization combined with anthropogenic climate warming are
significantly increasing heat-related health threats in cities worldwide. In Los Angeles (LA) …

There is near consensus in the scientific community that humans will experience higher
future temperatures due to the ongoing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the …

Heat-related illness, an environmental exposure-related outcome commonly treated in US
hospital emergency departments (ED), is likely to rise with increased incidence of heat …

The occurrence of extreme heat and its adverse effects will be exacerbated with the trend of
global warming. An increasing number of researchers have been working on aggregating …

Health disparities occur when adverse health conditions are unequal across populations
due in part to gaps in wealth. These disparities continue to plague global health. Decades of …