Door-to-door heat outreach through existing community health workers
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Piggyback heat protection on trusted community health worker cadres who already go door-to-door in informal settlements: pre-alert awareness visits, symptom spotting and first response during heatwaves, reaching households that no cooling center or broadcast will.
Ahmedabad, India
SuccessAhmedabad Municipal Corporation with IIPH Gandhinagar and NRDC; Mahila Housing Trust for ASHA training · since 2013 · City
The ASHA outreach layer is the social core of the Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan, South Asia's first, launched in 2013. ASHA community health workers, already embedded in the city's informal settlements, were trained to con…
Avoided deaths per year, Heat Action Plan overall (Hess et al. 2018)Pre-plan mortality relationships (baseline period before May 2010 heatwave) → ~1,190deaths avoided per year
Mortality reduction on days at or above 45°C (Hess et al. 2018)Pre-plan mortality on such days → 27percent reduction
Philanthropy-seeded plan run through Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and partners · 1 source