Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in California: Community Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Strategies Report No. 1: Heat-Related Illness and Mortality, Information for the Public Health Network in California
- Abstract
The primary objective of this community vulnerability assessment is to identify locations and/or populations with high risk for heat-related illness. To develop a model of community vulnerability we evaluated: (1) past heat waves and published literature to identify risk factors for heat-related ilness (2) a selected set of environmental, health, and demographic “indicators” of risk; and (3) readily available data sources for demographic risk factors. We used a GIS framework to evaluate patterns of geographic distributions of overlapping indicators.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Paul B. English Kathleen Fitzsimmons Sumi Hoshiko Thomas Kim Helene G. Margolis Thomas E. McKone Miriam Rotkin-Ellman Gina Solomon Roger Trent Zev Ross
- Date
- 2007
- Institution
- Climate Change Public Health Impacts Assessment and Response Collaborative
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Region
- Southwest
- Other
- Vulnerability assessment