HIGH Horizons - Implementing a Heat Early Warning System to protect health workers from heat exposure in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The overall aim of the implementation and evaluation of the EWS was to assess the operational performance of the MotherHeat Alert app and to achieve knowledge change concerning heat-health risks among 60 health workers, in three diverse settings: South Africa (urban, mostly informal), Zimbabwe (rural) and Sweden (urban). This report, deliverable D4.7, focusses specifically on assessing the uptake of the MotherHeat Alert by community health workers (CHWs) as well as facility based health workers and describes the implementation of an EWS among health workers in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Authors: Sawry, Shobna, Munyewende, Pascalia Ozida, Madondo, Celeste, le Roux, Jean, Lamola, Rose Refilwe, Mkwananzi, Sibusiso, Chidumwa, Glory, Madimutsa, Gracious, Muronzie, Thabani, Machingura, Fortunate, Chinozvina, Tariro, Chawhanda, Christine, Nyakabau, Tapiwa, Gao, Chuansi, Luchters, Stanley, HIGH Horizons Study Group
Institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research, Lund University, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Ghent University, University of Thessaly, University of Graz, Karolinska Institutet, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, World Health Organization, Technical University of Denmark
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G3210031810, G4443155986
OpenAlex ID: W7164147971