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Number 1/ The Urban Heat Island Effect: Causes, Health Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

Number 2/ Communicating the Health Risks of Extreme Heat Events: Toolkit for Public Health and Emergency Management Officials.

Number 3/ Understanding Community Resilience to Extreme Heat Through Table-top Exercises

Number 4/ Developing Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities

Number 5/ North American Working Group on Climate Change and Human Health

Number 6/ Health Canada is Collaborating with Canadian Communities to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect

This workbook provides step-by-step information on how to conduct a climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessment. This workbook is intended for use by health officials to develop health vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans through participatory processes that engage...

All people in Canada are vulnerable to health risks related to climate change. However, climate change affects some people and communities more than others. In Canada, certain groups are at higher risk and more vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change.

You can prepare for the hazardous events and conditions that climate change can bring.

Infectious diseases, pathogens (living things that cause disease) and vectors (living things that spread disease) are sensitive to changes in the environment and climate.