Individual and public-program adaptation: coping with heat waves in five cities in Canada.

ABSTRACT: Heat Alert and Response Systems (HARS) are currently undergoing testing and implementation in Canada. These programs seek to reduce the adverse health effects of heat waves on human health by issuing weather forecasts and warnings, informing individuals about possible protections from excessive heat, and providing such protections to vulnerable subpopulations and individuals at risk. For these programs to be designed effectively, it is important to know how individuals perceive the heat, what their experience with heat-related illness is, how they protect themselves from excessive heat, and how they acquire information about such protections. In September 2010, we conducted a survey of households in 5 cities in Canada to study these issues. At the time of the survey, these cities had not i

SUBMITTER: Alberini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3290981 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature