Illness and death associated with heat are preventable. The Community Heat Resilience Tool (CHaRT) maps heat-health risks at the neighborhood level and suggests specific strategies to keep people safe and productive. The tool allows users to identify the climatic, environmental, social, and economic factors that drive risk, and uses these factors to recommend the most effective and appropriate interventions for a given location. This helps decision makers and their communities develop plans to protect people’s health.

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The Community Heat Resilience Tool was developed by the Center for Health and the Global Environment within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and was made possible with the support of a CoMotion grant and by the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number P20ES036748.

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