From inequalities to vulnerability paradoxes: juxtaposing older adults' heat mortality risk and heat experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing temperatures across the globe, including in Europe, pose one of the biggest threats to human health and wellbeing. Different kinds of inequalities, determined by age, sex/gender, isolation, socio-economic status, occupation, living in the city, and health situation, create vulnerability factors influencing people's heat-related mortality risk and their daily experiences during summer.

Methods

Our study uses an interdisciplinary approach to research how intersecting inequalities generate vulnerabilities to heat stress among older adults (65+) in two European cities: Warsaw and Madrid. We combine three methodological approaches juxtaposing quantitative and qualitative data: (1) epidemiological analysis that uses daily mortality data in Warsaw and Madrid c

SUBMITTER: Wrotek M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034184 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature