Vulnerability and Adaptation to Extreme Heat in Odisha, India: A Community Based Comparative Study.

ABSTRACT: Extreme heat and heat illness are becoming very frequent in India. We aimed to identify the factors associated with heat illness and the coping practices among city dwellers of Odisha, India during the summer. A cross-sectional study included 766 households (HHs) in twin cities of Odisha covering a population of 1099 (slum: 404 and non-slum: 695) in the year 2017. We collected information on sociodemographic, household characteristics, coping practices to heat and the heat illness history reported during the summer. Multivariate logistic regression accounting for clustering effects at the household and slum levels was used to identify the associated factors of heat illness after adjustment of other variables. Nearly, 49% of the study participants were female and the mean age was 38.36 year

SUBMITTER: Swain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950623 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature