Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kirch, Wilhelm (Editor), Bertollini, Roberto (Editor), Menne, Bettina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Meteorology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

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 k...