Impact of Escalating Heat Waves on Students’ Well-Being and Overall Health: A Survey of Primary School Teachers

Lala, Betty; Hagishima, Aya

doi:10.3390/cli11060126

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“…The room temperature is high due to the hot and scorching weather around the school environment. According to Lala and Hagishima (2023), warm and intense temperatures highlight how humans' susceptibility to heat exposure can affect their health, including the manifestation of physical signs of heat exhaustion. This condition is exacerbated by low air movement in the room.…”

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Assessing Thermal Comfort Parameters in Public School Buildings for Tropical Areas

Monica,

Purnomo,

Zain

2024

IJEAS

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The thermal comfort of the teacher’s lounge at the Public School Buildings of SDN 27 in North Pontianak is an important factor in providing room conditions to support the activities of teaching staff. Thermally, comfortable conditions play a role in increasing the productivity of teaching staff. However, the thermal condition of the teacher’s lounge at SDN 27 in Northest Pontianak does not meet the thermal comfort standards. Based on the facts, the thermal condition needs to be solved to achieve comforts in teacher’s lounge. Formulation of indicators for thermal comfort conditions was conducted in this research with CFD simulation. A seven-day research process obtained on the observation of thermal comfort levels in the teacher’s lounge. The modeling of the software includes indicators for adding heat loads under the roof and changing the wall paint color to beige. Both indicators can reduce the room temperature by 9.4 °C. In addition, changing the opening and applying cross ventilation are also indicators that the teacher’s lounge achieves a comfortable, thermally neutral condition. The final result of this study is that a teacher’s lounge has a 0.26 value of thermal comfort, and the room conditions have a neutral thermal sensation value.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Assessing Thermal Comfort Parameters in Public School Buildings for Tropical Areas

Monica,

Purnomo,

Zain

2024

IJEAS

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“…The mentioned effects extend to the context of teaching/learning and classroom environment. For example, heat waves have been shown to seriously impair students’ health and productivity [ 4 ]. One way to explain this is that the external environmental setting can be an ambient stressor on students’ health [ 20 ].…”

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“…As of now, the detrimental effects of anthropogenic environmental pollution have worsened the physical environment for education, teaching, and learning. For instance, heat waves have been shown to seriously impair students’ health and productivity [ 4 ]. Palme and Salvati (2021) highlighted that there is relatively inadequate research focusing on the connections between microclimates and human health and emotions [ 5 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Application of DIY Electrodermal Activity Wristband in Detecting Stress and Affective Responses of Students

Lim,

Nguyen Thien,

Nguyen Duc

et al. 2024

Bioengineering

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This paper describes the analysis of electrodermal activity (EDA) in the context of students’ scholastic activity. Taking a multidisciplinary, citizen science and maker-centric approach, low-cost, bespoken wearables, such as a mini weather station and biometric wristband, were built. To investigate both physical health as well as stress, the instruments were first validated against research grade devices. Following this, a research experiment was created and conducted in the context of students’ scholastic activity. Data from this experiment were used to train machine learning models, which were then applied to interpret the relationships between the environment, health, and stress. It is hoped that analyses of EDA data will further strengthen the emerging model describing the intersections between local microclimate and physiological and neurological stress. The results suggest that temperature and air quality play an important role in students’ physiological well-being, thus demonstrating the feasibility of understanding the extent of the effects of various microclimatic factors. This highlights the importance of thermal comfort and air ventilation in real-life applications to improve students’ well-being. We envision our work making a significant impact by showcasing the effectiveness and feasibility of inexpensive, self-designed wearable devices for tracking microclimate and electrodermal activity (EDA). The affordability of these wearables holds promising implications for scalability and encourages crowd-sourced citizen science in the relatively unexplored domain of microclimate’s influence on well-being. Embracing citizen science can then democratize learning and expedite rapid research advancements.

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“…Vulnerability can vary according to the age of the population. People older than 65 or younger (<15 years) are more vulnerable to extreme events than people in other age ranges [108,109]. The influence of people´s level of education is the second indicator considered in the articles revised (51 to 91).…”

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Building Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Review of Climate Change Adaptation Indicators for Urban Design

Díaz,

Zambrana-Vasquez,

Bartolomé

2024

Energies

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Urban areas generate more than 70% of the world’s climate change emissions, mainly CO2, produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. Climate change is increasing cities’ exposure to climate hazards, such as heat waves or floods. Therefore, there is a need to improve risk management with the inclusion of climate resilience in urban policy design. Despite improved urban climate monitoring, there are still relatively few scientific publications on climate change adaptation in urban areas. Adaptation to climate change is not achieved through specific action, but rather through the adoption and continuous implementation of adaptation actions such as housing rehabilitation, green space management and protection measures for vulnerable groups. This variety of actions makes it difficult not only to identify different indicators, but also to use common benchmarks. Considering the role of municipalities in adapting to climate change, it is crucial to identify adaptation indicators that serve as a basis for decision making, as well as evaluation methods that allow the effectiveness of planned and implemented measures in municipalities. It can be used to determine which measures increase the level of adaptation or lead to poor adaptation. Therefore, monitoring indicators makes it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the measures, in addition to formulating new ones. This paper includes a literature review of existing index designed to address climate hazards and mitigate their impacts in urban areas.

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Impact of Escalating Heat Waves on Students’ Well-Being and Overall Health: A Survey of Primary School Teachers

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Assessing Thermal Comfort Parameters in Public School Buildings for Tropical Areas

Assessing Thermal Comfort Parameters in Public School Buildings for Tropical Areas

Application of DIY Electrodermal Activity Wristband in Detecting Stress and Affective Responses of Students

Building Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Review of Climate Change Adaptation Indicators for Urban Design

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