TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Surveying local health departments and county emergency management offices on cooling centers as a heat adaptation resource in New York State
JO  - Journal of community health
A1  - Nayak, Seema G.
A1  - Lin, Shao
A1  - Sheridan, Scott C.
A1  - Lu, Yi
A1  - Graber, Nathan
A1  - Primeau, Michael
A1  - Rafferty, Claudine Jones
A1  - Hwang, Syni-An
SP  - 43
EP  - 50
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0094-5145
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-016-0224-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -