Harvard Health: High temperatures stress the body, leading to thousands of heat-related illnesses and deaths every year in the US. Creating a personal heat plan can help you stay safe when the heat index soars.
Caleb Dresser, MD, is the medical lead for C-CHANGE, the Harvard T. Chan Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment, and an emergency medicine doctor at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Below we interview him about who, how, and why heat harms. Then we’ll help you create your personal heat safety plan.High temperatures can affect anyone.
Danger zones vary across the United States and around the world. But hospital use and deaths rise once we get above threshold temperatures. The threshold varies in different places depending on whether bodies, cultures, and architecture are adapted to heat. Surprisingly, spring and early summer are particularly dangerous times because people and organizations aren’t as prepared for hot weather.Five key points to help you create a personal heat plan are below. Americares offers further information through heat tip sheets developed with the Harvard C-CHANGE team that are tailored to people in different health circumstances.found 21 additional risky heat days, on average, for 232 out of 249 locations between 1970 and 2022.
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