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Displaying 45 of about 70 results… vulnerability of children and protect their health from heat stress. As children under five are especially vulnerable … vulnerability of children and protect their health from heat stress. As children under five are especially vulnerable …
… how the population’s awareness and knowledge of national heat plans and extreme heat can improve community behaviour and adaptation. A … Foreigners had less knowledge of risk compared to locals. Heat plans were not widely known in Madrid and Lisbon. …
… LONDON - From spray parks in water-short Cape Town to heat-reflecting pavements in Tokyo, cities around the world … adopting innovations to try to beat increasingly deadly heat . But ensuring the measures help those most at risk … as misperceptions about who is most vulnerable and where, heat experts said this week. In New York, for instance, most …
… maps that convey useful knowledge on exposure to extreme heat while helping to identify and implement effective … populations – such as people in urban areas susceptible to heat waves – have led to the utilization of maps to depict … of human health to hazards associated with extreme heat, especially the lack of agreement regarding …
… Extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death in the … weather events, understanding Americans’ perceptions of heat risk and their geographic variability is essential for promoting adaptive behaviors during heat waves. Using a large original survey dataset of 9,217 …
… of vulnerability of urban populations to extreme heat events in Australian capital cities at the present time, … can be used to calculate temperature thresholds for heat alert days. The key risk factors related to adverse … health outcomes were found to be areas with intense urban heat islands, areas with higher proportions of older people, …
… Australia, our hottest summer on record points to more heat-related deaths to come. The record heatwaves have highlighted the damaging effects of heat stress. Understandably, it’s becoming a major public health challenge . The risk of extreme heat events and the adverse impacts on older people has been …
… with the risks posed by climate change, including for heat-related mortality. What does prospective age tell us … than thought. What does prospective age tell us about heat-mortality risk in Spain over the past 40 years? In our … age to assess historical changes in the risk of heat-related mortality in a context of climate change and …
… differentiated questions on how risks and responses to heat stress vary among the different social categories in the … well as the important factors that affect vulnerability to heat stress. … This study addresses socially differentiated questions on how risks and responses to heat stress vary among the different social categories in the …
… underlying determinants of poverty [1] . Extreme heat events [2] are one type of disaster that is already … effects are ubiquitous and deadly. The impacts of recent heat waves have been devastating – the death toll of the European heat wave of 2003 is estimated at 70,000 [3] and the Northern …
… it the province’s second deadliest period of extreme heat since the summer of 2010 . At the peak of the heatwave, … C) and posted its most extreme midnight combination of heat and humidity. The stifling temperatures continued for most of the week. Quebecers felt the heat. By Wednesday of that week, Montréal ambulance services …
… vulnerability of the elderly and protect their health from heat stress. This ACCC study develops plan and aims to … leaders, family and vulnerable individuals during the heat wave. … This paper provides information for aged-care …
… into focus last week across the Southern U.S. as a deadly heat wave blanketed the region. As my colleague Dr. Rachel Licker … out , the combination of income loss, COVID-19, extreme heat, and the lack of utility shutoff moratoria are bad, bad …
… heatwaves to British Columbia. Unfortunately, the heat was not the only record that skyrocketed — what followed … flooding in the coming weeks , followed by possible heat domes throughout the summer, governments and … were reported during the extreme Pacific Northwest heat wave . The majority were older adults living alone without …
… Last summer, I spent time editing a paper on the effect of heat on health. It took me 15 years to secure funds, find … loops and maintained by a delicate balance between heat production, conservation and dissipation that depends on … have shown that hundreds of deaths from Chicago’s heat wave in 1995 may not have been captured on death …