Extreme weather events pose risks to human health and put pressure on public health agencies, the Science Media Centre in Taiwan said yesterday.
The local branch of the British organization cited a study titled “Urban climate-health governance: Charting the role of public health in large global city adaptation plans,” which was published on Friday in the PLOS Climate journal and focused on global health adaptations to increasingly frequent extreme weather events in the past few decades.
Surveying adaptation plans in 22 relatively health-adaptive cities, the researchers found that 73 percent of them involved public health agencies, it said.
Those that involved public health