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Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-3-540-28862-6

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In February 2004, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Environment Agency organized an expert meeting to exchange information and develop recommendations on public health and environmental responses to weather and climate extremes, floods, heat-waves and cold spells. The meeting was kindly hosted by the Ministry of Health of Slovakia. The meeting recommendations were adopted at the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.


Subject: Medicine, Public Health, Smog, Storm, Weather, World Health Organization, temperature, windstorm