ArticleCurrent epidemiology reports2014
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in heat-related health effects and their mechanisms: a review.
Article in Current epidemiology reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 180 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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180 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Sex differences in the impact of extreme heat on cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2025Pooled it
- Urban heat island impacts on heat-related cardiovascular morbidity: A time series analysis of older adults in US metropolitan areas.Environment international · 2023Pooled it
- The Effect of High and Low Ambient Temperature on Infant Health: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Acute association between heatwaves and stillbirth in six US states.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between Green Building Design Strategies and Community Health Resilience to Extreme Heat Events: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
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- Heat exposure in pregnancy: A gap between evidence and public health messaging.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Associations between extreme temperature events and daily step counts by weight status and modifying effects of sociodemographic factors: a longitudinal study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Cause-specific heat-related mortality in Rio de Janeiro city: Comparing exposure metrics and the role of exposure duration.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Indoor Thermal Environments, Cooling Access, and Energy Burden in New Orleans, LA: Challenges and Opportunities for Heat Adaptation.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Adaptation to increasing extreme heat in a changing climate requires a precise understanding of who is most vulnerable to the health effects of extreme heat. The evidence for race, ethnicity, income, education and occupation, at the individual and area levels, as indicators of vulnerability is reviewed. The evidence for the social, behavioral and technological mechanisms by which racial and socioeconomic disparities in vulnerability exist is also reviewed. These characteristics include cardiorespiratory, renal and endocrine comorbidities; cognitive, mental or physical disabilities; medication use; housing characteristics; neighborhood characteristics such as urban heat islands, crime and safety; social isolation; and individual behaviors such as air conditioning use, opening windows and using fans and use of cooler public spaces. Pre-existing and future research identifying these more proximal indicators of vulnerability will provide information that is more generalizable across locations and time to aid in identifying who to target for prevention of heat-associated morbidity and mortality.
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