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Heat related research papers
Over summer, South Australia experiences periods of extremely hot weather. These extreme heat events, where maximum temperatures are above 40°C over a number of days with little relief during the night, have resulted in some people becoming ill. However, illness from the heat can be prevented.
Researchers at SA Health have been working with The University of Adelaide to investigate how to prevent poor health during extreme heat. The areas of research include:
- the types of health effects from extreme heat
- who is at risk and what are the risk factors
- how climate change is predicted to affect extreme heat events
Reports, summaries of research papers and peer reviewed publications can be accessed from the links below. Topics include:
- health impacts of heatwaves in the Adelaide metropolitan area
- older people
- culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- community, climate change and extreme heat
- how heat affects the workplace
Health impacts of heatwaves in the Adelaide metropolitan area
- Morbidity and mortality during heatwaves in metropolitan Adelaide
- Impact of two recent extreme heat episodes on morbidity and mortality in Adelaide, South Australia - a case-series analysis
- Heat and health in Adelaide, South Australia: assessment of heat thresholds and temperature relationships
- Risk factors for direct heat-related hospitalisation during the 2009 Adelaide heatwave - a case crossover study
- Extreme heat arrangements in South Australia: an assessment of trigger temperatures
- The effect of heat waves on mental health in a temperate Australian city
- The effect of heat waves on hospital admissions for renal disease in a temperate city of Australia
- The unfolding story of heat waves in metropolitan Adelaide (PDF 545KB)
- Risk factors of direct heat-related hospital admissions during the 2009 heatwave in Adelaide, Australia: a matched case-control study
- Risk factors for deaths during the 2009 heat wave in Adelaide, Australia: a matched case-control study
- Evaluation of a heat warning system in Adelaide, using case-series analysis
Older people
- Adaptive capabilities in the elderly during extreme heat events in South Australia - a report (PDF 289KB)
- Risk factors, health effects and behaviour in older people during extreme heat
- Perceptions of heat-susceptibility in older persons - barriers to adaptation
- Older persons and heat-susceptibility: the role of health promotion in a changing climate
- Heat-health behaviours of older people in two Australian states
Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Vulnerability to extreme heat and climate change: is ethnicity a factor?
- Adaptation in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
- Extreme heat and cultural and linguistic minorities in Australia: perceptions of stakeholders
Community, climate change and extreme heat
- Awareness of and attidudes towards heat waves within the context of climate change among a cohort of residents in Adelaide, Australia
- Extreme heat and health: perspectives from health service providers in rural and remote communities in South Australia
- Engaging stakeholders in an adaptation process: governance and institutional arrangements in heat-health policy development in Adelaide, Australia
- Heatwaves and climate change: applying the health belief model to identify predictors of risk perception and adaptive behaviours in Adelaide , Australia
- Public understanding of climate change and adaptation in South Australia
- Building community resilience to heat waves in South Australia
- Potential Health Outcome and Vulnerability Indicators of Climate Change for Australia: Evidence for Policy Development