Social disparities in neighborhood heat in the Northeast United States

Renteria, Roger; Grineski, Sara E.; Collins, Timothy W.; Flores, Aaron B.; Trego, Shaylynn

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.111805

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“…Although Santiago is a highly segregated city, note that using municipalities for discerning socioeconomic strata has some limitations compared with studies that uses, for example, census tracts as analytical units (e.g., Renteria et al 16 ). These limitations suggest that future efforts aimed at the studying disparities in the exposure to environmental hazards in Santiago may need to advance to neighborhood-level information.…”

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“…While no one is safe from climate-pollution-related risks, those whose health is being harmed first and worst are often people in low-income and disadvantaged countries and communities 15 . Prior efforts led by environmental justice researchers, who assess social inequalities in exposures to various hazards, have shown that socially vulnerable groups generally experience greater exposures to extreme heat [16][17][18][19][20][21] . Worsened by ground-level ozone, heatwaves affect the social and environmental determinants of health and disproportionally impact vulnerable populations around the world 15 .…”

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Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile

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Cities in the global south face dire climate impacts. It is in socioeconomically marginalized urban communities of the global south that the effects of climate change are felt most deeply. Santiago de Chile, a major mid-latitude Andean city of 7.7 million inhabitants, is already undergoing the so-called “climate penalty” as rising temperatures worsen the effects of endemic ground-level ozone pollution. As many cities in the global south, Santiago is highly segregated along socioeconomic lines, which offers an opportunity for studying the effects of concurrent heatwaves and ozone episodes on distinct zones of affluence and deprivation. Here, we combine existing datasets of social indicators and climate-sensitive health risks with weather and air quality observations to study the response to compound heat-ozone extremes of different socioeconomic strata. Attributable to spatial variations in the ground-level ozone burden (heavier for wealthy communities), we found that the mortality response to extreme heat (and the associated further ozone pollution) is stronger in affluent dwellers, regardless of comorbidities and lack of access to health care affecting disadvantaged population. These unexpected findings underline the need of a site-specific hazard assessment and a community-based risk management.

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Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile

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“…To study the urban impact on LST, 16 images were used in obo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, Sub-Shaharan Africa) over 22 years (1991-2013) [83], 11 images in the semi-arid city Erbil, Iraq over 21 years (1992-2013) [84], and two images in Changchun, China over 12 years (1993-2005) [85]. Also, LST trend analysis was performed in urban areas (cities) in Ghana [86], India [87], Iran [88], Thailand [89], and the USA [90,91] using variable numbers of Landsat images in the study periods, i.e., three in six, eight (two in each year) in 30, four in 30, six in 10, and 53 in five years, respectively. Other studies performed LST trends in finding relationships with LULC-Land Use Land Cover changes [92,93], forest cover changes [94], and changes in NDVI-Normalized Difference Vegetation Index [95]- [97] and green roof [98].…”

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Opportunities and Challenges of Spaceborne Sensors in Delineating Land Surface Temperature Trends: A Review

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Understanding the land surface temperature (LST) trends is crucial for policymakers and stakeholders to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies suitable for a sustainable environment coping in the face of climate change. This article presents a systematic review of the studies related to delineating spaceborne sensor based LST trends, including information on the instruments and constellations of satellites (missions) that provide thermal infrared (TIR) and passive microwave (PMW) observations. About 99% of the studies used TIR, where 76% were MODIS (onboard Terra/Aqua) observations. Opportunities, challenges, and research gaps for using the TIR and PMW observations were also explored, with instruments onboard either polar-orbiting or geostationary satellites. We identified that calibrated dataset (e.g., processed, harmonized, and standardized) is extremely limited for each constellation, with multiple satellites and instruments, to make it fully useful for the entire mission period. A few problematic methodological concepts were identified, including using a few images in a longer time series. Using only a few images, acquired on different calendar months in different years, would not provide the true annual trends over the study period because they can be influenced by seasonal variations. To estimate the warming or cooling daytime, nighttime, or diurnal LST trends, the use of MODIS observations could be useful, even though it does not acquire images during the maximum or minimum temperature in a daily cycle. This article indicated further investigations into those research gaps and recommended directions to overcome most of these limitations.

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“…Based on previous work that heat increases emotional distress and induces impulsiveness and aggression (Anderson, 1989 ; Kim et al ., 2016 ), we expected that emotional (e.g., depression and anxiety) and behavioural disorders (e.g., externalizing) would be more strongly impacted by heat than other mental health categories. Given that children and adolescents from racially marginalized groups and low socio-economic positions are disproportionately impacted by heat and often lack resources (e.g., air conditioning) to cope with heat (Gronlund, 2014 ; Renteria et al ., 2022 ), we expected that racial/ethnic minority groups and those paying with Medicaid (indicating low income) would be more vulnerable to high temperature in terms of mental health risk. Due to mixed findings related to sex (Basu et al ., 2018 ; Kim et al ., 2019 ; Nori-Sarma et al ., 2022 ), no specific hypothesis was made for how sex would moderate the association between temperature and mental health risk.…”

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Temperature and mental health–related emergency department and hospital encounters among children, adolescents and young adults

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Aims We examine the association between high ambient temperature and acute mental health-related healthcare encounters in New York City for children, adolescents and young adults. Methods This case-crossover study included emergency department (ED) visits and hospital encounters with a primary diagnosis of any mental health disorder during warm-season months (June–August) in New York City from 2005 to 2011 from patients of three age groups (6–11, 12–17 and 18–25 years). Using a distributed lag non-linear model over 0–5 lag days, by fitting a conditional logistic regression for each age group, we calculated the cumulative odds ratios of mental health encounters associated with an elevated temperature. Analyses were stratified by race/ethnicity, payment source and mental health categories to elucidate vulnerable subpopulations. Results In New York City, there were 82,982 mental health–related encounters for young people aged 6 to 25 years during our study period months. Elevated temperature days were associated with higher risk of mental health–related ED and hospital encounters for the 6- to 11-year-olds (odds ratio [OR]: 1.28, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.13–1.46), for the 12- to 17-year-olds (OR: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.09–1.25) and for the 18- to 25-year-olds (OR: 1.09, 95% CI: 1.04–1.15). Children with reaction disorders, adolescents with anxiety and bipolar disorders, young adults with psychosis and reaction disorders and Black and non-Hispanic children and adolescents showed vulnerability to elevated temperature. Conclusions We found that elevated ambient temperatures were associated with acute mental health ED or hospital encounters across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

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Social disparities in neighborhood heat in the Northeast United States

Cited by 41 publications

References 67 publications

Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile

Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile

Opportunities and Challenges of Spaceborne Sensors in Delineating Land Surface Temperature Trends: A Review

Temperature and mental health–related emergency department and hospital encounters among children, adolescents and young adults

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