A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan
Abstract South Asia is one of the hot-spots of extreme heat events and associated health risks. As heat waves continue to get harsher due to climate change, South Asia’s exposure to them is probably going to increase. After a heatwave in 2010, Ahmedabad implemented South Asia’s first heat action pla...
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| description | Abstract South Asia is one of the hot-spots of extreme heat events and associated health risks. As heat waves continue to get harsher due to climate change, South Asia’s exposure to them is probably going to increase. After a heatwave in 2010, Ahmedabad implemented South Asia’s first heat action plan (HAP). The Ahmedabad HAP can serve as a model for other cities across South Asian nations interested in intervention strategies against excessive heat. In recent years, 2020 and onwards, Ahmedabad’s healthcare system faces an extreme COVID-19 crisis which resulted in severe negligence of heat wave-influenced mortality and morbidity cases. Though the city continued to disseminate the necessary information for public heat preparedness from the existing heat action plan, there was no record made separately for COVID-19 and heat stress-related mortality/morbidity by the health department. Thus, due to a lack of heat-related health records, we were unable to track the HAP intervention effect in 2022. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-10f5e4f47b0e480eaeea0567d758b8532025-02-09T12:18:16ZengSpringerAerosol and Air Quality Research1680-85842071-14092022-11-0122121310.4209/aaqr.220300A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action PlanPriya Dutta0Prashant Rajput1Polash Mukherjee2Prima Madan3Dileep Mavalankar4Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPH-G)Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPH-G)Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPH-G)Abstract South Asia is one of the hot-spots of extreme heat events and associated health risks. As heat waves continue to get harsher due to climate change, South Asia’s exposure to them is probably going to increase. After a heatwave in 2010, Ahmedabad implemented South Asia’s first heat action plan (HAP). The Ahmedabad HAP can serve as a model for other cities across South Asian nations interested in intervention strategies against excessive heat. In recent years, 2020 and onwards, Ahmedabad’s healthcare system faces an extreme COVID-19 crisis which resulted in severe negligence of heat wave-influenced mortality and morbidity cases. Though the city continued to disseminate the necessary information for public heat preparedness from the existing heat action plan, there was no record made separately for COVID-19 and heat stress-related mortality/morbidity by the health department. Thus, due to a lack of heat-related health records, we were unable to track the HAP intervention effect in 2022.https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.220300HAPExtreme heatSouth AsiaMortalityMorbidity |
| spellingShingle | Priya Dutta Prashant Rajput Polash Mukherjee Prima Madan Dileep Mavalankar A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan Aerosol and Air Quality Research HAP Extreme heat South Asia Mortality Morbidity |
| title | A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan |
| title_full | A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan |
| title_fullStr | A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan |
| title_short | A Successful Heat Wave Prevention in Ahmedabad Calls for Segregated Health Record: Highlights from Existing Heat Action Plan |
| title_sort | successful heat wave prevention in ahmedabad calls for segregated health record highlights from existing heat action plan |
| topic | HAP Extreme heat South Asia Mortality Morbidity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.220300 |
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