PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1469486
This article is part of the Research TopicHeat Stress and Public Health Issues: Impacts, Adaptation, and MitigationView all articles
The Contemporary Spell of Heat Stroke in Karachi amid Global warming and Power crisis: A Threatened Call for Medical Emergency
Provisionally accepted
- 1Karachi medical and Dental college, Karachi, Pakistan
- 2Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
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The study examines the impact of population density, air pollution, and temperature on heat stroke cases in Karachi, focusing on stroke-related mortality from 2010 to 2024. It develops an intelligent system for adaptive forecasting, incorporating population increase, air quality, meteorological activity, and mortality data, presenting urban vulnerability to health crises. A Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine the association between these factors, which makes it possible to present urban vulnerability to health crises from various angles that are systematically relevant and interdependent at the same time. This study is unique because it takes an integrated approach, relating urban stressors and climate conditions to public health outcomes in Karachi, a context that has been neglected in previous studies.
Keywords: Global Warming, power crisis, Heat Stroke, Karachi, public healh
Received: 23 Jul 2024; Accepted: 19 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Saadat, Zubair, Siddiqui and Mughal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Sanila Mughal, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
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