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Following the devastating events in the Philippines, we have made a new paper from the journal Public Health openly and freely available to all, which we hope will provide information and support to colleagues from all over the world who are engaged in the humanitarian response and enable public health professionals to further their understanding of the public health impact of such destructive events.

The paper ‘The health impacts of windstorms: a systematic literature review’ examines the documented impacts that windstorms have on human health, both direct and indirect, as well as impacts for healthcare management in the surrounding area.

‘The health impacts of windstorms: a systematic literature review’ 

  • A Goldman, St George’s University of London and Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England
  • B Eggen, Toxicology Department – Air pollution and climate change, Public Health England
  • B Golding, UK Met Office
  • V Murray, Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England

The paper provides material to increase awareness and education amongst the public and healthcare professionals to prevent and prepare for the health impacts of storms, including information on behaviours that should be adopted before, during and after the impact of a windstorm and a look at the best communication channels to use when providing advice and coordinating help.

Joint Editors-in-Chief of Public Health Phil Mackie and Dr Fiona Sim said: “Releasing this paper as open access will hopefully provide some additional help to public health colleagues to deal with both the current and inevitable future emergencies of this type. Recent events are devastating for the population and it was therefore not a hard decision to do whatever we could at Public Health and Elsevier to help colleagues providing support in the Philippines. The paper, from eminent UK experts, provides the first systematic view of the health impacts of windstorms and we hope that accelerating the publication will provide additional information to help inform the global humanitarian response.”

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