Health care facilities resilient to climate change impacts.
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...In Canada, Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) was helpful in engaging stakeholders, and addressing issues of power relations between collaborating partners [135] and recent research has compared and reviewed reports of a variety of toolkits now available [136]....
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...While our review was not internationally comprehensive, we note examples of research in Canada [131, 137], the USA [138, 139], the UK [120] and Australia [140], with calls for coordinated action to: reduce heat exposure; improve access to cooling; adapt the built environment; enhance surveillance and early warning systems and public awareness communications [141]....
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...A further relatively distinct influence has been the contribution of specific checklists to assess facility and organizational resilience from the fields of disaster management and emergency preparedness (Paterson et al. 2014; Zhong et al. 2014a, 2015; Dobalian et al. 2016; Khan et al. 2018; Meyer et al. 2018)....
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...2014a, 2015) or as a toolkit for facilities aiming to improve their climate resiliency (Paterson et al. 2014)....
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...Studies from the public health sciences tended to converge in three groups: (1) quantitative studies focusing on service delivery, making use of service utilization indicators provide an easily accessible measure to assess resilience before, during and after a crisis (Paterson et al. 2014; Gizelis et al. 2017; Sochas et al. 2017; Kozuki et al. 2018; RayBennett et al. 2019), (2) qualitative studies focusing on the health workforce, influenced by ideas of ‘everyday resilience’ and addressing the contributions of social connectedness and leadership on 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18...
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...Additionally, practitioners must take appropriate steps to ensure that their facilities are prepared to handle various emergencies associated with climate and development shocks, including providing various redundant systems, so that facilities can safely operate in adverse conditions [33,43]....
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...Health workers may be unable to provide services if their homes or facilities are damaged due to flood or storm events or if an infectious disease outbreak makes travel too risky [33]....
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...Health workers may be unable to provide services if their homes or facilities are damaged due to flood or storm events or if an infectious disease outbreak makes travel too risky [33]....
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...Additionally, practitioners must take appropriate steps to ensure that their facilities are pre ared to handle various emergencies associated with climate and development shocks, including providing various redundant systems, so that facilities can safely operate in adverse conditions [33,43]....
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