Health

Bangkok: Like a big oven

Opinion Author: Porpla Khuan-arch Posted on April 28, 2016

Thailand faced very high temperatures this last April. It is well known that the major factor behind this hot weather is the sun being directly overhead during the April- May period.

Bangkok is a city that experiences problems during hot weather spells such as these. Besides the seasonal and geographical factors, the phenomenon of "Urban Heat Island" is another factor that makes Bangkok extremely hot.

Arfiana Khairunnisa
April 28, 2016 . 2 min read

ACCCRN Champion: Dr Vikas Desai: Surat, India

ACCCRN Champion Author: Anu Jogesh Posted on April 22, 2016

In the 67 years that Dr Vikas Desai has spent in Surat, she has seen the city transform in subtle and significant ways - in its economy, infrastructure, population and governance systems. Surat’s most notable transformation, however, is from a town that gained international notoriety when it contracted the plague in 1994 to one of the only municipalities to have vector-borne disease surveillance through out the year.

Arfiana Khairunnisa
April 22, 2016 . 3 min read

Hot town: Summer in the city

Opinion Author: Bob Khosa Posted on July 07, 2015

Just over a year ago Delhi was in the grips of an unbearable heatwave. It’s citizens experienced ten continuous days of relentless heat.  Record-breaking temperatures peaked at over 47˚C with little relief overnight as temperatures sustained at an average of nearly 29˚C. That year power supplies failed to keep up with cooling demand and there were reports of social unrest in the north of India as substations were set on fire and power workers held hostage.

Will Bugler
July 7, 2015 . 4 min read

Surat Health Centre: Dr. Vikas Desai Explains 'Why Surat'

In a clip from an interview, Dr. Vikas Desai explains the specific challenges facing Surat City and how these issues can be addressed by a Health Centre in Surat that would focus on the linkages between climate change and human health.

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Surat Health Centre: Dr. Vikas Desai Explains 'Why Now'

In this excerpt from an interview, Dr. Vikas Desai explains how Surat's municipal infrastructure, and the initiative taken by stakeholders across various sectors in the city, has made it the right time to act on addressing critical linkages between climate change and public health.

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