Program Overview
Extreme weather alterations are resulting in more varied temperatures, patterns, and natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and flooding. These events in addition to overall weather shifts have an impact on children and pregnant people’s health. The WSPEHSU strives to bring awareness to this public health issue and has developed material on the health effects of extreme weather.
To learn more about wildfires and how they are an increasing problem due to extreme weather, visit the WSPEHSU webpage on wildfires.
Resources on Extreme Weather and Health
This PDF provides a fact sheet highlighting the impacts of extreme weather on children’s health and offers actionable prevention strategies for healthcare providers, educators, and communities.
This document highlights the health impacts of extreme weather, such as heat stress and air pollution, and emphasizes the need for mitigation and adaptation strategies to protect vulnerable populations.
External Resources on Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather and Pregnancy: Risks, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience
This scientific paper on extreme weather and pregnancy was written based on the above factsheet. The paper provides a more in-depth analysis on risks, mitigation, adaptation and resilience as they relate to extreme weather.
2023 Symposium on Heat: Impacts on Children and Pregnancy
WSPEHSU and Cal EPA cohosted a symposium series on heat and its health effects on children and pregnancy. The four sessions included the following topics:
- Pediatric physiology and the epidemiology of heat health effects in children
- Pregnancy physiology and the epidemiology of heat health effects in pregnant people
- Strategies to combat health effects of heat in children and during pregnancy
- Heat health warning systems and important considerations for children and pregnant people
The recordings are available on the symposium webpage.
Viviendo Verde
En este espacio podrás encontrar herramientas que te ayudarán a conocer más y a activarte en la protección del medio ambiente y a combatir los efectos nocivos del cambio climático.
Ayúdanos a proteger a nuestras familias, a nuestras comunidades y a nuestra Madre Tierra.
Extreme Weather, Health, and Equity
These materials include overviews of weather science, health impacts of extreme weather and how health equity fits into the equation. It discusses what local health departments can do to include extreme weather and health equity into assessment and surveillance, intersectoral collaboration, community engagement and education, weather and health communications, preparedness and more. The companion U.S. brief, released by APHA and The Lancet, hones in on the health impacts of extreme weather in America.