Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona | Zendy

Sharon L. Harlan | Zendy; Juan DecletBarreto | Zendy; William L. Stefanov | Zendy; Diana B. Petitti | Zendy

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Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s) -

Sharon L. Harlan,

Juan DecletBarreto,

William L. Stefanov,

Diana B. Petitti

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1104625

Subject(s) - geography , census , vulnerability (computing) , population , urbanization , socioeconomic status , demography , urban heat island , environmental health , socioeconomics , medicine , meteorology , ecology , sociology , computer security , computer science , biology

Most heat-related deaths occur in cities, and future trends in global climate change and urbanization may amplify this trend. Understanding how neighborhoods affect heat mortality fills an important gap between studies of individual susceptibility to heat and broadly comparative studies of temperature-mortality relationships in cities.

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