Heat Exposure and the General Public: Health Impacts, Risk Communication, and Mitigation Measures

Grundstein, Andrew; Williams, Castle A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75889-3_3

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“…Public engagement strategies for extreme heat might include, for example, information dissemination campaigns or the mobilization of first responders to monitor and check in on the most vulnerable [12]. Importantly, risk communication and public engagement efforts are more effective when they are responsive to current public risk perceptions [13,14]. To effectively and equitably protect the public, it is particularly crucial that special attention is paid to the perceptions and experiences of vulnerable populations.…”

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Extreme heat & public perception in Portland, Oregon: Evidence of a compounding vulnerability effect for climate hazards

Suldovsky,

Baer Kramer,

Fink

2024

PLOS Clim

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Extreme heat events are a global public health threat, and the frequency of these events are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. Responding to extreme heat requires that municipalities communicate with public audiences. Generally speaking, risk communication and public engagement efforts are more effective when they are responsive to current risk perception trends. This social scientific study examines extreme heat risk perceptions, emergency response needs, and level of trust in first responders among residents of the Portland (OR) Metro Area. Using quantitative survey data, it demonstrates the compounding influence of three previously identified vulnerability indicators–poverty, disability, and race–on public perception surrounding extreme heat and environmental emergencies. Results show these vulnerability indicators have a significant compounding effect on public perception, such that an increased number of vulnerability indicators is associated with greater anticipated harm from extreme heat, higher anticipated need in the event of an environmental emergency, and lower trust in first responders. Firefighters and medical providers were the most trusted first responders across all vulnerability groups. Guidelines for public engagement and recommendations for future social scientific research are discussed.

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Extreme heat & public perception in Portland, Oregon: Evidence of a compounding vulnerability effect for climate hazards

Suldovsky,

Baer Kramer,

Fink

2024

PLOS Clim

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“…Thus, attention to the ways that heat measurement and heat-health impacts are communicated is also increasing (Grundstein and Williams 2018). However, decision-makers, such as emergency managers, need to understand the heatrelated information they are provided by forecasters because it is used to make life-saving decisions on behalf of the public.…”

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Communicating about Extreme Heat: Results from Card Sorting and Think-Aloud Interviews with Experts from Differing Domains

Sutton

Waugh

Olivas

2023

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Climate trends indicate that extreme heat events are becoming more common and more severe over time, requiring improved strategies to communicate heat risk and protective actions. However, there exists a disconnect in heat-related communication from experts, who commonly include heat related jargon (i.e., technical language), to decision makers and the general public. The use of jargon has been shown to reduce meaningful engagement with and understanding of messages written by experts. Translating technical language into comprehensible messages that encourage decision makers to take action has been identified as a priority to enable impact-based decision support. Knowing what concepts and terms are perceived as jargon, and why, is a first step to increasing communication effectiveness. With this in mind, we focus on the mental models about extreme heat among two groups of domain experts –those trained in atmospheric science and those trained in emergency management to identify how each group understands terms and concepts about extreme heat. We use a hybrid data collection method of open card sorting and think-aloud interviews to identify how participants conceptualize and categorize terms and concepts related to extreme heat. While we find few differences within the sorted categories, we learn that the processes leading to decisions about the importance of including, or not including, technical information differs by group. The results lead to recommendations and priorities for communicating about extreme heat.

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“…Second, indoor temperature anomalies affect the health and productivity of occupants. [4][5][6] For example, they may result in heat illnesses or death to older people due to heat exposure, 7,8 or cardiac autonomic response during sleep due to cold exposure. 9,10 The design of an integrated method that can flexibly detect various thermal problems is necessary.…”

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Multiple conformance to hybrid-automata-modelled requirements for detecting indoor temperature anomalies

Yang

Aoki

Tan

2020

Indoor and Built Environment

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Detections of different thermal problems resort to approaches that utilize different indices, respectively. From an engineering viewpoint, they are neither flexible in detecting multiple thermal problems nor flexible in dealing with new concerned thermal problems. This article proposes a multiple-conformance approach to requirements that modelled by hybrid automata for flexibly detecting temperature anomalies. Temperature anomalies could lead to thermal problems, i.e., thermal discomfort as well as serious health problems. This approach extended a conventional conformance approach. The flexibility of the proposal is reflected in two aspects. First, it is an integrated approach that can deal with multiple thermal problems at different states of hybrid automata. Second, we can devise conformance relations concerning new thermal problems, and add them to the multiple-conformance approach. Experimental results show the feasibility and high performance of our proposal in detecting indoor temperature anomalies comprehensively.

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Heat Exposure and the General Public: Health Impacts, Risk Communication, and Mitigation Measures

Cited by 6 publications

References 98 publications

Extreme heat & public perception in Portland, Oregon: Evidence of a compounding vulnerability effect for climate hazards

Extreme heat & public perception in Portland, Oregon: Evidence of a compounding vulnerability effect for climate hazards

Communicating about Extreme Heat: Results from Card Sorting and Think-Aloud Interviews with Experts from Differing Domains

Multiple conformance to hybrid-automata-modelled requirements for detecting indoor temperature anomalies

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