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ArticleEnvironmental health insights2024

Media-Based Post-Event Impact Analysis of the 2021 Heat Dome in Canada.

Emily J Tetzlaff, Nicholas Goulet, Melissa Gorman, Gregory Ra Richardson, Paddy M Enright, Sarah B Henderson, Glen P Kenny

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Article in Environmental health insights, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Emily J TetzlaffHuman and Environmental Physiology Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Nicholas GouletHuman and Environmental Physiology Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Melissa GormanHeat Division, Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Gregory Ra RichardsonHeat Division, Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Paddy M EnrightHeat Division, Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sarah B HendersonEnvironmental Health Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Glen P KennyHuman and Environmental Physiology Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unprecedented 2021 Heat Dome caused wide-ranging and long-lasting impacts in western Canada, including 619 confirmed heat-related deaths in British Columbia, a doubling of emergency medical calls, increased hospitalisations, infrastructure failures and stress on plants and animals. However, such varied socio-economic consequences of extreme heat can be challenging to capture using a single post-event analysis method. Therefore, there is a need to explore alternative approaches and data sources. Using the 2021 Heat Dome as a case study, a post-event analysis using online news media articles (n = 2909) from 5 subscription news databases and a grey literature search was conducted to identify the socio-economic impacts of the extreme heat event in Canada. The articles reported a wide range of effects to the natural environment (n = 1366), social infrastructure and services (n = 1121), human health (n = 1074), critical infrastructure (n = 988) and the private sector (n = 165). The media-based post-event analysis captured various impacts, some of which have not been identified through other data sources and approaches. Overall, we show that media analysis can complement traditional post-event analysis methods and provide additional perspectives to governments and public health and safety officials.

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climate changeExtreme heat eventheat waveimpact analysisrisk communication

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PMCPMC11378224

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