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
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
BETTER QUESTIONS: The Ministry of Education said that the test’s steering committee would review the database of questions and improve their qualityBy Rachael Lin and Wu Po-Hsuan / Staff reporters
The Ministry of Education plans to upgrade the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) by reviewing and improving the database of test questions before launching a new version TOCFL 2.0 in 2023.
The TOCFL is a proficiency test for non-native speakers of Chinese that categorizes language proficiency into four bands and eight levels, the ministry said yesterday.
The levels were based on those used in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and those used by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the ministry said.
The ministry said that from 2013 to last year, it