Psychology & Psychiatry
Feeling hot triggers impulsive behavior and irritability
Heat blanketed Chicago during the summer of 2022, with hot, sticky days followed by sweltering nights.
Jun 28, 2024
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News tagged with urban heating
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
During a heat wave, high indoor temperatures can also prove dangerous
During hot weather—like the wave of 90-plus-degree days that Philly will experience this week—most of the public's attention is focused on skyrocketing outdoor temperatures that can cause serious medical complications ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Climate change and mental health: How extreme heat can affect mental illnesses
During heat waves, hospital admissions for mental health spike. The past 10 years were the hottest on record, and as we prepare for another scorcher of a summer, it's time to take steps to increase our preparedness for extreme ...
May 29, 2024
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Medical economics
Urban heat islands have a health cost, reveals study
A new study led by EPFL has produced the first cost estimate of the impact that urban heat islands have on human health. The study looked at 85 European cities over the course of three full years, meaning it also took into ...
Jan 23, 2024
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Health
Planting more trees could reduce premature deaths in European cities by a third
Urban development leads to fewer shaded areas and more heat-absorbing paved surfaces. Cities tend to be warmer than their rural surroundings as a result, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. During the ...
Feb 2, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Walking in urban green spaces is healthier than walking in gray spaces
Taking a walk is known to reduce stress, but recent research shows that, in cities, where you take that walk matters.
Jan 5, 2023
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Health
Hot summer nights bad for health: Climate change causes hotter nights, reducing sleep quality
A survey of residents from the city of Nagoya in central Japan has provided evidence of the negative impact of warmer nighttime summer temperatures on population health. In total, more than 1,200 residents filled out a sleep ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Pediatrics
Black and Hispanic children suffer disproportionately from asthma. Climate change is making it worse
Ever since they were infants, LaRae Cantley's four children were constantly in and out of the emergency room, because they couldn't breathe.
Sep 23, 2022
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Health
'Children are not little adults' and need special protection during heat waves
After more than a week of record-breaking temperatures across much of the country, public health experts are cautioning that children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults are—even more so when they're on the ...
Aug 9, 2022
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Health
Climate change can worsen 58% of human infectious diseases
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.
Aug 9, 2022
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