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Zero regrets: scaling up action on climate change mitigation and adaptation for health in the WHO European Region, second edition. Key messages from the Working Group on Health in Climate Change

Climate change and health: the national policy overview in Europe

Map viewer: Accessibility of hospitals in Europe

Map viewer: Availability of urban green spaces to vulnerable groups

Map viewer: Exposure of vulnerable groups and social infrastructure to climate-related risks

Climate change as a threat to health and well-being in Europe: focus on heat and infectious diseases

Human Climate Horizons (HCH)

The impact of extreme temperatures on human mortality in the most populated cities of Romania

The impact of extreme weather conditions on humans is one of the most important topics in biometeorology studies. The main objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between temperature-related weather conditions and natural mortality in the five most populated cities of Romania, namely, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Constan?a, Ia?i, and Timi?oara. The results of this study aim to bridge a gap in national research. In the present paper, we used daily natural mortality data and daily minimum and maximum air temperatures. The distributed lag nonlinear model (DLNM) allowed us to identify weather conditions associated with natural mortality. The most important results are as follows: (i) a higher daily mortality is related to a high frequency of heat stress conditions; (ii) a higher maximum temperature increases the relative risk (RR) of natural mortality; (iii) the maximum number of fatalities is recorded on the first day of high-temperature events; and (iv) individuals much more easily adapt to cold stress conditions. The main conclusion in this study is that the inhabitants of the most populated cities in Romania are more sensitive to high-temperature stress than to low-temperature stress.

Human health vulnerability to summer heat extremes in Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border area

Human health vulnerability (HHV) to different climate change-related phenomena, that is, summer heat extremes, is related to the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of the affected entities. The current research is an empirical regional assessment of the human health effects of summer heat extremes in the Romania-Bulgarian Danube floodplain Calafat-Vidin-Turnu Magurele-Nikopol (CV-TMN) sector. The external biophysical and socioeconomic factors that shape the vulnerability are supported by the climate approach. The research relies on processing meteorological data from the most representative climate stations in the study area based on which some indicators-significant for measuring the impact on human health-were computed (e.g., number of extremely hot days, number of tropical days, number of tropical nights) and integrated into a composite summer heat extremes index (SHEI). To assess HHV to summer heat extremes, the vulnerability framework was completed by the internal socioeconomic factors revealed by the characteristics of the population living in urban and rural settlements in terms of demographic, health provisions, and quality of indoor living spaces. Finally, the authors computed the index of human health vulnerability to summer heat extremes (HHVI) as the Hull Score at the level of territorial local administrative units.

Perceived influence of weather conditions on rheumatic pain in Romania

Agriculture and the twofold relationship between food security and climate change. Evidence from Romania

Summer thermal discomfort conditions in Romania under climate change scenarios

Qualitative assessment of social vulnerability to flood hazards in Romania

Transmission dynamics of the West Nile virus in mosquito vector populations under the influence of weather factors in the Danube Delta, Romania

Influence of climatic factors on the pollution with nitrogen oxides (NOx) in Bacau City, Romania

Effective monitoring and warning of Urban Heat Island effect on the indoor thermal risk in Bucharest (Romania)

Climate change is increasing the risk of the reemergence of malaria in Romania

Climate change and species distribution: Possible scenarios for thermophilic ticks in Romania

A common methodology for risk assessment and mapping for south-east Europe: An application for heat wave risk in Romania

Dirofilariasis – an emergent human parasitosis in Romania

Leishmaniasis–An unusual cause of splenomegaly in Romania

Respiratory health, effects of ambient air pollution and its modification by air humidity in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania

South-East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Advisory System

Flash Flood Guidance System with Global Coverage (FFGS)