HEAL
HEAL Overall Aims
Theme 1:
Use a standardised methodology to collect meteorological and all-cause mortality data to evaluate the impact on health during periods of heat wave
Theme 2:
Systematically collect pre-hospital data and geospatially map areas within a Telangana district with high volume of calls due to heat-related illness during heat wave periods
Theme 3:
Pilot and assess the feasibility of CarbonCool suit intervention introduced in the pre-hospital setting. Community interventions (Public education, NGO run cooling points)
Publications
- Nadarajan GD, Rao GR, Reddy K, Gimkala A, Janumpally R, Ang Y, et al. Characteristics of Prehospital Heat Illness Cases During the Annual Heat Wave Period in Telangana, India. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2021 Aug;36(4):385–92.