@article{ref1,
title="Surveying local health departments and county emergency management offices on cooling centers as a heat adaptation resource in New York State",
journal="Journal of community health",
year="2016",
author="Nayak, Seema G. and Lin, Shao and Sheridan, Scott C. and Lu, Yi and Graber, Nathan and Primeau, Michael and Rafferty, Claudine Jones and Hwang, Syni-An",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="43-50",
abstract="Local agencies in New York State (NYS) set up cooling centers to provide relief from summer-time heat especially for people with limited access to air-conditioning. We aimed to determine cooling center locations in NYS, and explore county agencies' involvement in organizing and promoting utilization of cooling centers. We conducted a survey among county health and emergency preparedness offices in NYS (excluding NYC) and explored official county websites. We identified 377 cooling centers, mostly in metropolitan areas of NYS. Although 47 % of counties listed locations online, only 29 % reported locations via survey. Radio (90 %) and internet (84 %) were popular for information dissemination. Air-conditioning was available at all indoor cooling center facilities. Cooling centers in 13 % of the counties were accessible by either public transportation or shuttles arranged by the facility. About 38 % counties do not consider cooling centers important in their region or promote informal cooling centers. More than a third of New York counties had neither cooling centers nor plans to establish a cooling center as extreme heat was not perceived as a threat in their region.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0094-5145",
doi="10.1007/s10900-016-0224-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-016-0224-4"
}