CROSS-SECTOR MANAGEMENT OF EXTREME HEAT RISKS IN ARIZONA

[...]ANNUAL ARIZONA EXTREME HEAT PLANNING WORKSHOP What: Nearly 100 participants from public health, local government, utilities, media, and academia met to review cases of heat-related fatalities in Arizona to pinpoint opportunities for improving collaborations and interventions for a leading weath...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019-03, Vol.100 (3), p.ES101-ES104
Main Authors: Guyer, Haven E., Putnam, Hana F., Roach, Matthew, Iñiguez, Paul, Hondula, David M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Adaptation
Agreements
Air conditioners
Air conditioning
Climate change
Collaboration
Cooperative control
Disease control
Disease prevention
Extreme heat
Extreme high temperatures
Fatalities
Health hazards
Health services
Heat
Homelessness
Innovation
Innovations
Local government
MEETING SUMMARIES
Mental disorders
Policies
Public health
Risk
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Risk perception
Social interactions
Social services
Urban planning
Utilities
Working groups
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Summary:[...]ANNUAL ARIZONA EXTREME HEAT PLANNING WORKSHOP What: Nearly 100 participants from public health, local government, utilities, media, and academia met to review cases of heat-related fatalities in Arizona to pinpoint opportunities for improving collaborations and interventions for a leading weather-related health hazard. Risk factors that participants identified included preexisting respiratory or cardiovascular health conditions, mental illness, homelessness, low access to certain social services, low access to air conditioning, social isolation, living in a trailer, limited knowledge of available resources, outdoor occupation, and low risk perception of the impact heat can have on health. The context provided by the cases helped participants identify a number of strategies that are consistent with those widely recommended by public health agencies and weather services, but also catalyzed discussion about interventions and solutions that were novel. [...]discussions mostly focused on programmatic, short-term actions, rather than large-scale, systematic, policy-supported changes.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0183.1