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Understanding Heat Waves: Hazards, Risks, and Vulnerabilities in Vulnerable Populations

Heat waves significantly increase morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations, and this risk is expected to rise over time due to various social, economic, and health-related factors. This visual representation provides context for the sustained high temperatures, urban heat islands, and related vulnerabilities, particularly among the elderly, disabled, homeless, and socially isolated individuals. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing climate change impacts and the need for effective disaster management strategies. Join us in seeking solutions to address the challenges posed by heat waves.

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Understanding Heat Waves: Hazards, Risks, and Vulnerabilities in Vulnerable Populations

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  1. Heat Waves: understanding Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability A visual representation

  2. The Problem…..

  3. Heat waves result in a significant increase in morbidity and mortality amongst vulnerable populations

  4. evidence suggests that vulnerability will increase over time through a combination of social, economic and health related factors.

  5. The Hazard: a visual context

  6. Sustained periods of above average temperatures….

  7. Doesn’t cool down at night…..

  8. Absorption of heat by the urban environment….

  9. Conditions out of context for a given community….

  10. The Risks: let’s try to understand…. Global Warming…the earth is warming up…

  11. Urban heat islands…a “cement jungle”

  12. Lack of Air Conditioning…its not a luxury!

  13. Lack of shade…no oasis?

  14. Poor housing conditions…getting out of the kitchen does not mean what you might think!

  15. Who is Vulnerable? The elderly…..

  16. Disabled….

  17. Homeless…

  18. Mentally ill and Socially isolated….

  19. Occupational Vulnerability

  20. How are we Vulnerable? Climate Change….

  21. Urban inhabitants….

  22. Heat related illness….

  23. Increase in violent behavior….

  24. Exacerbation of Chronic Disease

  25. In summary…. A hazard is not a disaster without risk and vulnerable populations The images within this slideshow are designed twofold: to help explain the problem and to provoke your imagination to seek solutions to this conundrum! Please stay with us…and help us to create some recommendations regarding heat waves in a disaster management context!

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