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Excessive heat events guidebook
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June 2006
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Description:"Excessive heat events (EHEs) are and will continue to be a fact of life in the United States. These events are a public health threat because they often increase the number of daily deaths (mortality) and other nonfatal adverse health outcomes (morbidity) in affected populations. Distinct groups within the population, generally those who are older, very young, or poor, or have physical challenges or mental impairments, are at elevated risk for experiencing EHE-attributable health problems. However, because EHEs can be accurately forecasted and a number of low cost but effective responses are well understood, future health impacts of EHEs could be reduced. This guidebook provides critical information that local public health officials and others need to begin assessing their EHE vulnerability and developing and implementing EHE notification and response programs." - 5
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Content Notes:United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Atmospheric Programs.
"EPA 430-b-06-005"
"June 2006."
"The primary agencies that partnered to support this guidebook's development are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Weather Service (NWS), and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." - p. 1
Also available via Internet from the EPA Heat Island web site as an Acrobat .pdf file (711 KB, 60 p.). Address as of 7/28/06: http://www.epa.gov/heatisland/about/pdf/EHEguide%5Ffinal.pdf; current access is available via PURL.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-48).
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