Adapting to extreme heat events, guidelines for assessing health vulnerability
- Abstract
”A major component of public health efforts to protect people from extreme heat events centres on assessments of individual and community level vulnerability. Adapting to Extreme Heat Events: Guidelines for Assessing Health Vulnerability provides an overview of the vulnerability assessment methodology that has been developed by Health Canada”—P. 1.In developing this guidance, leading experts and stakeholders from local communities helped to identify and articulate the risks to the health of Canadians from extreme heat and the range of viable adaptation options. The assessment steps and methods set out in this document were tested through the completion of four extreme heat and health vulnerability assessments in partnering pilot communities— Winnipeg, Manitoba; the town of Melita in the Assiniboine Regional Health Authority, Manitoba; Windsor, Ontario; and Fredericton, New Brunswick. Lessons learned, as well as best practices for investigating risks and necessary adaptation actions, are provided here to help public health and emergency management officials better protect the health of Canadians from extreme heat events.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- Water, Air and Climate Change Bureau Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch
- Date
- 2011
- Institution
- Health Canada
- Organization Type
- Other gov
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Region
- International
- Other
- Vulnerability assessment