Federal authorities are confronting maladies caused by heat exhaustion as climate specialists and numerous medical and public health schools attribute disproportionate numbers of health issues including death to climate change.

In the aftermath of a record-breaking summer in the United States, several departments and agencies on Monday announced their initiatives to address the biggest cause of weather-related deaths in the country. The drive is part of President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda initiative.

The Department of Labor committed to reduce occupational heat exposure and the Environmental Protection Agency announced efforts to redouble the enhancement of neighborhood cooling centers, among additional federal departments and agencies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are merging efforts that encourage the efficacy of the US’ national heat response.

A large number of schools of medicine and public health also are deeply probing correlations between extreme heat caused by climate change and the often deadly toll it exacts on human health.

The T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University points to climate change as being particularly harmful to children, noting vulnerabilities such as diabetes, obesity and asthma enhancing risks. The school projects more days of temperatures exceeding 90 degrees in the coming years should the atmosphere endure carbon pollution.

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine forewarns deaths as a result of strokes are directly associated with extreme temperatures. Strokes, which obstruct one’s control of bodily functions like speaking, thinking and moving, can happen to anyone at any time.

The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University has a chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which addresses the impact that climate change has on human health.

Medical Students for a Sustainable Future views climate change as ‘an urgent threat’ to the well being of human health.

The White House push notes those especially vulnerable to the dangers of excessive heat are children, seniors and workers, indicating efforts to address the ongoing issue include the establishment of the Interagency Working Group on Extreme Heat, heat standards for workplaces and enforcement efforts to address the problem whose scope is forecast to widen.