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National analysis maps German hospital vulnerability to flood-driven traffic disruptions

Due to climate change, extreme weather events such as flooding are expected to increase in Germany in the future. This poses hidden risks to the health care system that have hardly been the focus of resilience planning to date: restrictions on access to hospitals and the supply of medical products d...

National analysis maps German hospital vulnerability to flood-driven traffic disruptions
Image: Phys.org
Due to climate change, extreme weather events such as flooding are expected to increase in Germany in the future. This poses hidden risks to the health care system that have hardly been the focus of resilience planning to date: restrictions on access to hospitals and the supply of medical products due to flood-related traffic disruptions.

Originally published at Phys.org

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