Multiple Trigger Points for Quantifying Heat-Health Impacts: New Evidence from a Hot Climate

Multiple Trigger Points for Quantifying Heat-Health Impacts: New Evidence from a Hot Climate

BACKGROUND Extreme heat is a public health challenge. The scarcity of directly comparable studies on the association of heat with morbidity and mortality and the inconsistent identification of threshold temperatures for severe impacts hampers the development of comprehensive strategies aimed at reducing adverse heat-health events. OBJECTIVES This quantitative study was designed to link temper...

Uncertainties Associated with Quantifying Climate Change Impacts on Human Health: A Case Study for Diarrhea

BACKGROUND Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. OBJECTIVES The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in a unambiguous manner. We illustrate this method by quantifyin...

Public Health Impacts from Climate Change

Emission metrics for quantifying regional climate impacts of aviation

This study examines the impacts of emissions from aviation in six source regions on global and regional temperatures. We consider the NOx-induced impacts on ozone and methane, aerosols and contrailcirrus formation and calculate the global and regional emission metrics global warming potential (GWP), global temperature change potential (GTP) and absolute regional temperature change potential (AR...

Myofascial trigger points: the current evidence

This paper provides an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the history, pathophysiology, mechanisms of pain production, and proposed methods of treatment of myofascial trigger points. Despite the increasing body of published literature on this subject, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. This paper aims to give the therapist a greater understanding of the current know...