TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities
JO  - Lancet
A1  - Jay, Ollie
A1  - Capon, Anthony
A1  - Berry, Peter
A1  - Broderick, Carolyn
A1  - de Dear, Richard
A1  - Havenith, George
A1  - Honda, Yasushi
A1  - Kovats, R. Sari
A1  - Ma, Wei
A1  - Malik, Arunima
A1  - Morris, Nathan B.
A1  - Nybo, Lars
A1  - Seneviratne, Sonia I.
A1  - Vanos, Jennifer
A1  - Ebi, Kristie L.
SP  - 709
EP  - 724
VL  - 398
IS  - 10301
N2  - Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing, poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to contend with even hotter weather in the future as a consequence of global climate change, there is a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures that can be implemented, particularly in low-resource settings. In this Series paper, we describe how a future reliance on air conditioning is unsustainable and further marginalises the communities most vulnerable to the heat. We then show that a more holistic understanding of the thermal environment at the landscape and urban, building, and individual scales supports the identification of numerous sustainable opportunities to keep people cooler. We summarise the benefits (eg, effectiveness) and limitations of each identified cooling strategy, and recommend optimal interventions for settings such as aged care homes, slums, workplaces, mass gatherings, refugee camps, and playing sport. The integration of this information into well communicated heat action plans with robust surveillance and monitoring is essential for reducing the adverse health consequences of current and future extreme heat.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0140-6736
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01209-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -