IJSRP, Volume 12, Issue 5, May 2022 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Hadita binti Sapari, Mohamad-Ikhsan bin Selamat, Rohaida Ismail, Wan-Rozita Wan-Mahiyuddin, Mohamad Rodi Isa
Abstract:
Climate change is not only a future problem and an urgent identification of the population, assessing the health risk, and planning appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies is a must to protect human health. Malaysia experienced extreme hot temperatures with 40.1°C in Chuping Perlis in 1998, while the lowest temperature was 15.7°C in 2014. The Ministry of Health reported about 200 cases of heat-related illness with two cases of mortality in Johor and Kedah as a result of El-Nino in 2016. Furthermore, due to the high heat, the government temporarily closed more than 250 schools during that period. Besides that, the year 2019 also saw a lot of heat waves because of the El-Nino phenomenon. On March 5th to 8th, 2019, Chuping, Perlis had a heatwave with a high temperature of between 37.1°C and 37.7°C.
Hadita binti Sapari, Mohamad-Ikhsan bin Selamat, Rohaida Ismail, Wan-Rozita Wan-Mahiyuddin, Mohamad Rodi Isa
(2022); A Review: The Relationship between Daily Temperature with Non-Accidental Mortality and its Spatial Pattern in Peninsular Malaysia; International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP)
12(5) (ISSN: 2250-3153), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29322/IJSRP.12.05.2022.p12521