Heat Exposure and Human Health in the Context of Climate Change

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The change of heat exposure in the context of climate change
3. The biologic mechanism for heat exposure and human health
4. Heat exposure and children health 5. Heat exposure and elderly health
6. Heat exposure and occupational health
7. Heat exposure and cardiorespiratory health
8. Heat exposure and mental health
9. Heat exposure and transmission of infectious diseases
10. Geographic variation in impacts of heat exposure on human health
11. Temporal variation in impacts of heat exposure on human health
12. Strategies to reduce the impacts of heat exposure on human health

Authors

Yuming Guo Associate Professor, Head of Climate and Air Quality Research Unit, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Associate professor Yuming Guo is the head of the Climate & Air Quality Research Unit in Monash University, Australia. His research interests focus on the health impacts of global climate change, extreme weather, and air pollution. He is honorary professor at University of Queensland and adjunct professor at University of Oulu, Jinan University, and Chongqing Medical University. His work was awarded the Best Environmental Paper by International Society of Environmental Epidemiology and he is awarded Best Young Scientist by the Lancet-CAMS Committee. He has published extensively (over 100 high quality papers in the last five years) in prestigious international journals including the highest-ranked journals. He is a member of Think Tank for Climate Change and Human Health in Australia. He sits in many research grant review committees and editorial board of Environmental Health Perspectives, Environment International, PeerJ, and Annals of Cancer Epidemiology. Shanshan Li Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Shanshan Li is a research fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She has a strong background in both public health and medicine. She is an environmental epidemiologist and biostatistician with special focuses on atmospheric environmental health and extensive child health issues. She has published broadly in high-ranked topic relevant journals, and as chief investigator successfully secured competitive grants. She is a peer reviewer of various grant schemes and a number of prestigious international journals. She has worked with Chinese government agencies (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, and CDC), numerous universities/research institutes across the world, and UNICEF. Most of her work involves collaborations with research groups across the globe, and she continues to develop broader and stronger linkages with colleagues within Australia and internationally.