Climate change and health: rethinking public health messaging for wildfire smoke and extreme heat co-exposures.

ABSTRACT: With the growing climate change crisis, public health agencies and practitioners must increasingly develop guidance documents addressing the public health risks and protective measures associated with multi-hazard events. Our Policy and Practice Review aims to assess current public health guidance and related messaging about co-exposure to wildfire smoke and extreme heat and recommend strengthened messaging to better protect people from these climate-sensitive hazards. We reviewed public health messaging published by governmental agencies between January 2013 and May 2023 in Canada and the United States. Publicly available resources were eligible if they discussed the co-occurrence of wildfire smoke and extreme heat and mentioned personal interventions (protective measures) to prevent expo

SUBMITTER: Coker ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10999651 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature