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A review of heat stress policies in the context of climate change | 50047

Primary Health Care: Open Access

ISSN - 2167-1079

A review of heat stress policies in the context of climate change and its impacts on outdoor workers: Evidence from Zimbabwe

Joint Event on 7th Annual Congress on Primary Healthcare, Nursing and Neonatal Screening & 2nd International Conference on Women's Health, Obstetrics and Female Reproductive System

July 27-28, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada

Bigboy Ngwenya

Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Prim Health Care

Abstract :

Record-breaking summer warm occasions are expanding in recurrence in Zimbabwe and 2016 was an especially sweltering year with the nation encountering its most noticeably bad warmth wave occasion in decades. As of now, Zimbabwe has no organized general wellbeing reaction to manage warm wave occasions and no particular information on warm related dismalness and mortality. The nation has no enactment for securing laborers against ecological warmth presentation, especially those most defenseless who are utilized in the casual segment. These workers are also at risk due to their outdoor work environments. The examination traces the condition of atmosphere and warmth worry in Zimbabwe as benchmarked against other African nations and France. It promotes synopses open-air laborers' helplessness to warm introduction and the requirement for the Zimbabwean Government to create techniques to ensure the prosperity and security of a growing people of outside authorities in Zimbabwe.

Biography :

E-mail: b.ngwenya@ecu.edu.au

 

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