Iterative Development And Testing Of A Heat Warning And Information System In Alberta, Canada
Organization: World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Year: 2018
Published in:
WHO/WMO. (2018) Climate Services forHealth: Improving public health decision-making in a new climate. Eds.J.Shumake-Guillemot and L.Fernandez-Montoya. Geneva.
In 2012, consistent with Alberta’s climate change adaption framework, Alberta Health, the Provincial Government Department of Health, initiated a high-level vulnerability assessment that led to the development of a Heat Warning and Information System (HWIS) involving collaboration between several agencies with expertise outside of public health.