The ability to deal with heatwaves varies depending on age and income. Even if people notice the danger, those who are vulnerable not able avoid it. Therefore, public role is important for their health life. In addition, considering increase in owing climate change, residential environment needs be improved. Then, which areas should improved primarily? Are there more severe heatwaves? How large...

introduction nowadays, the vulnerability of human’s dwellings to the natural disasters has been steadily increasing as the results of the population centralisation. economic activities in vast and dense regions and disorganised and irregular conditions of dwellings in which the low-income dwellers of urban and rural areas live. the scale of damage caused by a crisis is not only related to its d...

Climate change adversely affects Ethiopian economy due to heavy dependence of the agricultural sector on rainfall. A decrease of rainfall and rise in temperature has been increasing the exposure of the country to frequent drought. The study was conducted in central Tigray, Adiha tabia, to examine the perception of farmers on trends of climate changes and existing coping strategies. Farmers’ kno...

BACKGROUND The diagnostic performance of tools used to screen vulnerability in older cancer patients varies widely. We assessed the diagnostic performance of gait speed (GS) for assessing vulnerability in such patients. METHODS All consecutive outpatients 65 years and older were referred for geriatric oncology assessment (GA) before a therapeutic decision between November 2013 and April 2016 ...

Network Security Scanner (NSS) is a tool that allows auditing and monitoring remote network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it. Network Security Scanner is a complete networking utilities package that includes a wide range of tools for network security auditing, vulnerability Auditing, scanning, monitoring a...

Abstract Factors associated with structural racism, disenfranchisement, poverty, and other persistent sources of inequity are vulnerability exposure to environmental hazards. Social, demographic, factors hazards have been used by many researchers produce indexes hazard vulnerability. In preparation for a climate change health risk assessment Washington state, we compared methods results from si...