Technical documentation on exposure-response functions for climate-sensitive health outcomes
Categories: Climate change & health Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessments, Guidance document, Country experience, Global, Americas (Pan American Health Organization), Climate Resilient Health Systems
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This technical guidance helps assess and quantify relationships between climate hazards and climate‑sensitive health outcomes. It supports practitioners in identifying relevant health, climate, and vulnerability data, selecting appropriate epidemiologic study designs and deriving exposure‑response functions for use in disease burden projections.
The guidance document includes examples of relevant health, weather, and climate data that can be used in health-effects studies, resources on study designs commonly used to assess the relationships between climate hazards and health effects, and case studies on quantifying the future disease burden due to climate change.
Intended users
Ministries of health; Public health professionals; Researchers.