Detailed planning for heat events is essential to protect both athletes and the public
Paris will host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games between 26 July and 8 September the months with the highest risk for seasonal heat waves and air pollution peaks. As well as the 10 500 athletes and 4400 paralympic athletes, staff and workers, 45 000 volunteers, and millions of spectators and visitors will be affected. Athletes will benefit from specific heat preparation protocols and on-site care (such as acclimatisation and mitigation strategies) provided by dedicated physicians and sports scientists, which may reduce the effects of heat stress. However, most others will be unprepared and poorly informed about heat related risks. Organisers should take steps now to protect the health of everyone attending the 2024 games, in any capacity.
Experiences from previous summer games should help.12 Recent events such as the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, and the 2020 summer Ol
Objective To evaluate lag-response associations and effect modifications of exposure to floods with risks of all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality on a global scale.
Design Time series study.
Setting 761 communities in 35 countries or territories with at least one flood event during the study period.
Participants Multi-Country Multi-City Collaborative Research Network database, Australian Cause of Death Unit Record File, New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure, and the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health Network database.
Main outcome measures The main outcome was daily counts of deaths. An estimation for the lag-response association between flood and daily mortality risk was modelled, and the relative risks over the lag period were cumulated to calculate overall effects. Attributable fractions of mortality due to floods were further calculated. A quasi-Poisson model with a distributed lag non-linear function was us
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