Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH Horizons): monitoring, Early Warning Systems and health facility interventions for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children and health workers

Informazioni relative al progetto

HIGH Horizons

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101057843

DOI

10.3030/101057843

Data della firma CE 13 Luglio 2022

Data di avvio 1 Settembre 2022

Data di completamento 31 Agosto 2026

Finanziato da

• Health

Costo totale

€ 9 255 941,25

Contributo UE

€ 9 255 878,75

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Risultati finali

Documents, reports (18)

Report on modelling of alternative adaptation interventions
Approved TOR of Advisory Board
Carbon emission assessment report
Protocol for testing of the EWS among pregnant and postpartum women, and young children
Study Initiation Package

Study initiation package (before enrolment of the first study participant) including: i) registration number of the clinical study ii)final version of study protocol as approved by the ethics committee (a data collection plan specifying the frequency, the needs and the responsibilities of data collection processes, a biospecimen collection plan specifying the frequency, the needs and the responsibilities of sample collection, processing, coding and storage and laboratory analysis procedures, iii) ethics approvals required for the enrolment of the first study participant.

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 1

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 2

Report on predictive heat warning thresholds
Data management plan (year 1)
stakeholder list
Publication policy
common dissemination and communication strategy for the cluster
Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan and strategy
Protocol and ethics approval for mitigation interventions evaluation
Project management and quality management plan
Environmental exposures in health facilities
Approved TOR of Steering Committee
Updated systematic review 1
Report on photo voice sub-study, and the locally-adapted and optimized messaging

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Project website

Project website, Logo, Visual Design, Social Media

Project logo, social media and online presence established
cluster web portal and visual identity

Other (1)

Expert Group established and operational

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Tool for modelling of alternative mitigation interventions

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Vulnerable to heat stress: gaps in international standard metric thresholds

Autori: C. Brimicombe, C. Gao, I. M. Otto
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Biometeorology, 2024, ISSN 0020-7128
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02783-6

A scoping review on heat indices used to measure the effects of heat on maternal and perinatal health

Autori: Chloe Brimicombe, Francesca Conway, Anayda Portela, Darshnika Lakhoo, Nathalie Roos, Chuansi Gao, Ijeoma Solarin, Debra Jackson
Pubblicato in: BMJ Public Health, Numero 2, 2024, ISSN 2059-7908
Editore: BMJ Journals
DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000308

Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022)

Autori: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Pubblicato in: Data in Brief, Numero 58, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2024.111264

Navigating the health frontiers of Africa’s climate challenge

Autori: Fortunate Machingura
Pubblicato in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03061-z

A systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health.

Autori: Lakhoo DP, Brink N, Radebe L, Craig MH, Pham MD, Haghighi MM, Wise A, Solarin I, Luchters S, Maimela G, Chersich MF; Heat-Health Study Group; HIGH Horizons Study Group
Pubblicato in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41591-024-03395-8

How is maternal, newborn, and child health addressed in Heat Health Action Plans? A scoping review and content analysis

Autori: Alexandra Czerniewska, Chloe Brimicombe, Alejandro Saez Reale, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Alyssa Sharkey, Anayda Portela
Pubblicato in: Journal of Global Health, Numero 15, 2025, ISSN 2047-2978
Editore: International Society of Global Health
DOI: 10.7189/JOGH.15.04157

Preventing Heat-Related Deaths: The Urgent Need for a Global Early Warning System for Heat

Autori: Chloe Brimicombe, JD Runkle, C Tuholske C, DIV Domeisen, Chuansi Gao, Jorn Toftum and Ilona M Otto
Pubblicato in: PLOS Climate, 2024, ISSN 2767-3200
Editore: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000437

Effects of ambient heat exposure on risk of all-cause mortality in children younger than 5 years in Africa: a pooled time-series analysis

Autori: Chloe Brimicombe, Katharina Wieser, Tobias Monthaler, Debra Jackson, Jeroen De Bont, Matthew F Chersich, Ilona M Otto
Pubblicato in: The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024, ISSN 2542-5196
Editore: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00160-8

Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review

Autori: Nicholas Brink, Darshnika Lakhoo, Ijeoma Solarin, et al.
Pubblicato in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Numero 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2393
Editore: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06512-0

The influence of heat exposure on birth and neonatal outcomes in Mombasa, Kenya: a pooled time series analysis

Autori: Chloe Brimicombe, Debra Jackson, Aquinius Mungatia, Zeenat Sulaiman, Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M Otto
Pubblicato in: The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, ISSN 2667-2782
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JOCLIM.2024.100409

Other (7)

Statistical Analysis Plan: Impact of Heat Stress on Healthcare Workers' Quality of Intrapartum Care

Autori: Gon Giorgia, Fardousi Nasser
Pubblicato in: 2025
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15874509

CARBOMICA: a carbon mitigation and resource allocation modelling tool for the healthcare sector in East Africa

Autori: HIGH Horizons Consortium
Pubblicato in: COP28 Prospectus of Climate-Health Solutions, 2023
Editore: WHO

Heat-health glossary

Autori: HIGH Horizons consortium
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10562027

HIGH Horizons - Protocol for Population-Level Heat-Health Impacts Study in Greece, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, and Sweden

Autori: Cherie Part, Chloe Brimicombe, Nathalie Roos, the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10947995

HIGH Horizons - Conceptual framework of heat on health worker performance and quality of care

Autori: Lange Isabelle, Fardousi Nasser, Gon Giorgia, Filippi Veronique, HIGH Horizons Study Group
Pubblicato in: 2025
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16946862

HIGH Horizons - User-friendly tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities - CHECKLIST

Autori: Toftum J, for the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Pubblicato in: 2025
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14943973

Report of a scoping meeting for the selection of indicators to monitor the impact of extreme heat on maternal, newborn and child health, Geneva, Switzerland, 24-25 April 2023

Autori: World Health Organization
Pubblicato in: 2024, ISBN 978-92-4-007983-0
Editore: World Health Organization

Conference proceedings (3)

Heat Health Warning Thresholds for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Infants and Young Children and Health Workers

Autori: Chuansi Gao, Clara Heil, Chloe Brimicombe, Koen van der Sanden, Boris Kingma & Annie Portela
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12664206

The impact of extreme heat during pregnancy and childbirth in Johannesburg, South Africa

Autori: Chloe Brimicombe, Annika Sachs dos Santos, Ijeoma Solarin, Gloria Maimela, Matthew Cherish, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M. Otto
Pubblicato in: 2023
Editore: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-7581

" Beyond Ambient Temperature: A Comparative Analysis of Heat Metrics for Detecting Heatwaves on a Country Level"

Autori: Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Chloe Brimicombe
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU24-8448