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Environ Res
September 2025
School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address:
Heat-Health Action Plans (HHAPs) are essential public health interventions to reduce heat-related mortality and morbidity, yet how heat-related health risks have changed following their implementation remains scarce. This study aimed to examine the temporal changes in heat-related mortality in relation to the implementation of the HHAPs across five major cities of Australia, including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. Daily mortality and temperature data from 1999-2019 were analysed using distributed lag non-linear models to compare the heat-related mortality attributable fractions (AF%) between pre- and post-HHAP periods.
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September 2025
Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Climate change, leading to more frequent and intense extreme weather events (EWEs), could significantly impact dengue transmission. However, the associations between EWEs and dengue remains underexplored in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region. We investigated the association between selected EWEs (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Int
August 2025
Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Marchioninistraße 15, 81377 München, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764
Background: Heatwaves pose significant risks to human health. Implementing heat health warning systems (HHWS) has been widely adopted as a preventive measure. However, the effectiveness of the German HHWS in reducing mortality during heat episodes across different cities has scarcely been researched.
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August 2025
Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
Background: Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense in a warming climate and can cause substantial excess deaths. This study aimed to assess and map heatwave-related mortality burdens across Australia.
Methods: Heatwaves were defined as periods of ≥2 consecutive days with daily mean temperatures above the 95th percentile for each community (SA2 or SA3 level) during 2009-2019.
Lancet Planet Health
August 2025
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Climate change poses urgent public health risks from rising global temperatures and extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. To address the current silos embedded in climate, environmental, and public health monitoring and surveillance systems, climate-smart public health (CSPH) creates an integrated platform for action across these sectors, enabling more rapid and efficient responses to climate-related public health challenges. In this Personal View, we introduce the concept of CSPH, a data-driven framework designed to monitor, assess, and adapt to climate-related health impacts.
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