Mitigating the risk of heat-related injury
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Title
Injury Prevention
Volume
30
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
2
PubMed ID
38272702
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
School
School of Business and Law
Abstract
There is a call for a global approach to addressing the climate crisis and its potential for adverse impacts on human health. Injury prevention experts have long recognised extreme heat, sun exposure and other climate effects to be important causes of injury, given the external factors that are implicated in their causation. Injury prevention issues around heat-related causes have become more prominent recently under the premise of climate emergency and frequent occurrence of heatwaves due to climate change. . . .
DOI
10.1136/ip-2023-045196
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Comments
Finch, C. F., Huang, S., & Gamage, P. (2024). Mitigating the risk of heat-related injury [Editorial]. Injury Prevention, 30(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045196