• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between
climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect
climate - related
changes in food systems and water
supplies to health
under different conditions • Prediction of
future risks in response to
climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population