Patients with kidney disease, especially those with kidney failure, are particularly
susceptible to the adverse effects of disasters because their survival depends on functional …

Objectives: To provide contemporary estimates of the burdens (costs and mortality)
associated with acute inpatient Medicare beneficiary admissions for sepsis. Design …

New Yorkers face a multitude of health and safety risks that are exacerbated by a changing
climate. These risks include direct impacts from extreme weather events and other climate …

Power outages caused by extreme weather events cost the economy of the United States
billions of dollars every year and endanger the lives of the people affected by them. These …

Climate change threatens human health, but there remains a lack of evidence on the
economic toll of climate‐sensitive public health impacts. We characterize human mortality …

Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones have devastating effects on society. Previous case
studies have quantified their impact on some health outcomes for particular tropical …

Abstract In Chile, the Metropolitan Region of Santiago (RMS) is exposed to several natural
and anthropogenic hazards. This means that not only is there a constant need for …

Mass disasters result in extensive health problems and make health care delivery
problematic, as has been the case during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although COVID-19 was …

Widespread electrical power outages pose a serious risk to modern societies. During an
outage, the behavioural and psychological responses of members of the public will …

The twenty-first century will witness historically unprecedented shares of older adult
populations with an unfolding set of health-related challenges associated with climate …