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Using vulnerability maps to inform local public health policies, climate change adaptation efforts

The City of Austin (Texas) used a geospatial program to assess the area’s risks for extreme heat and river flooding.

Climate change health assessment

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an approach to assessing the health impacts of policies, plans, and projects using a variety of quantitative, qualitative and participatory techniques, in order to help decision-makers make more informed choices and promote healthy initiatives. One major benefit to using this approach is that investigators can record local observations where community-level data is difficult to find.

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