HSUG / RSS OSS webinar on climate and health

The Health Statistics Users Group (HSUG) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Official Statistics Section are organising a webinar to discuss the statistical approaches used for monitoring the impact of climate on health.

For further information and to register for this online event, please click here.

Please note that the webinar is free to RSS Fellows and e-student members. There are also a limited number of free places available to the HSUG community. If you would like to apply to HSUG for one of these free places, please email info@hsug.org.uk. There Is a registration fee of £10 for other participants.

Programme

Claire Hunt and Ellie Watkins at ONS will present on the SOSCHI (Standards for Official Statistics on Climate and Health Interactions) methods for temperature-related mortality work. They will also introduce the ONS climate-mortality publication.

Bruce Whyte from PHS (Public Health Scotland) will present PHS work to estimate the health impacts of climate change in Scotland. This presentation will focus mainly on heat-related mortality but will also mention other related climate health impact work.

A speaker from Manchester City Council will present work to investigate the implications of high heat events on health at a local level.

Further Information

The presentations, a meeting report and a recording of the webinar will be posted on the Health and Care group on StatsUserNetwork ( https://www.statsusernetwork.ons.gov.uk/ ), and also on the HSUG Community on AnalystX within the Future NHS platform (https://future.nhs.uk/DataAnalytics/view?objectId=59118800#59118800 ) .

People who are not able to attend on the day will be able to view, and comment on, this material.

If you have difficulty accessing either website please contact webmaster@hsug,org.uk