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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2024

Concurrent Heat and Air Pollution Exposures among People Experiencing Homelessness.

Zachary Van Tol, Jennifer K Vanos, Ariane Middel, Kristin M Ferguson

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trees Reduce Daytime Extreme Urban Heat Risk for People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026
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  5. Heat-Related Health Risks for People Experiencing Homelessness: A Rapid Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zachary Van TolSchool of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1891-4831
Jennifer K VanosSchool of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Ariane MiddelSchool of Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Kristin M FergusonSchool of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExtreme heat and air pollution are important human health concerns; exposure can affect mental and physical well-being, particularly during periods of co-occurrence. Yet, the impacts on people are largely determined by underlying health conditions, coupled with the length and intensity of exposure. Preexisting adverse health conditions and prolonged exposure times are more common for people experiencing homelessness, particularly those with intersectional identity characteristics (e.g., disease, ability, age, etc.). Partially due to methodological limitations, such as data scarcity, there is a lack of research at the intersection of this at-risk population within the climate-health domain.

objectivesWe have three distinct objectives throughout this article: DISCUSSION: The health insights from concurrent air pollution and heat exposure studies are consequential when studying unhoused communities who are already overexposed to harmful environmental conditions. Without holistic data sets and more advanced methods to study concurrent exposures, appropriate and targeted prevention and intervention strategies cannot be developed to protect this at-risk population. We highlight that

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Air PollutionExtreme HeatIll-Housed PersonsClimateHot TemperatureHumans

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PMID38261303
PMCPMC10805133

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