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

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

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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