Map** social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a sco** review

A Li, M Toll, R Bentley - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2023 - thelancet.com
The need to assess and measure how social vulnerability influences the health impacts of
climate change has resulted in a rapidly growing body of research literature. To date, there …

Climate Change, Extreme Heat, and Health

ML Bell, A Gasparrini… - New England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Points Health Implications of Climate Change and Extreme Heat Heat waves are
increasing in frequency, duration, and intensity and are already a substantial threat to …

Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance

DJ Vecellio, Q Kong, WL Kenney… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
As heatwaves become more frequent, intense, and longer-lasting due to climate change, the
question of breaching thermal limits becomes pressing. A wet-bulb temperature (Tw) of 35° …

NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's health risk

T Matte, K Lane, JF Tipaldo, J Barnes, K Knowlton… - 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report considers
climate health risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience strategies in New York City's unique …

Heatwave and mental health

X Zhang, F Chen, Z Chen - Journal of environmental management, 2023 - Elsevier
Physical health has been associated with ambient temperature and heatwave. With the
frequent occurrence of heatwave, the adaptive effects and mechanisms on mental health …

Associations between ambient extreme heat exposure and emergency department visits related to kidney disease

Y Qu, W Zhang, AYM Boutelle, I Ryan, X Deng… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rationale & Objective Extreme heat exposure is associated with multiple diseases.
However, our current understanding of the specific impact of extreme heat exposure on …

Increased emergency department medical imaging: association with short-term exposures to ambient heat and particulate air pollution

K Hanneman, O Taboun, A Kirpalani, B Ertl-Wagner… - Radiology, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Climate change adversely affects human health, resulting in higher demand for
health care services. However, the impact of climate-related environmental exposures on …

Inequality in the availability of residential air conditioning across 115 US metropolitan areas

Y Romitti, I Sue Wing, KR Spangler… - PNAS nexus, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Continued climate change is increasing the frequency, severity, and duration of populations'
high temperature exposures. Indoor cooling is a key adaptation, especially in urban areas …

Extreme heat and hospitalization among older persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias

SW Delaney, A Stegmuller, D Mork, L Mock… - JAMA Internal …, 2025 - jamanetwork.com
Importance As US society ages and the climate changes, extreme outdoor heat may
exacerbate the health burden of Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD), but …

Utility of the Heat Index in defining the upper limits of thermal balance during light physical activity (PSU HEAT Project)

DJ Vecellio, ST Wolf, RM Cottle, WL Kenney - International journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Extreme heat events and consequent detrimental heat-health outcomes have been
increasing in recent decades and are expected to continue with future climate warming …