Rethinking urban heat stress: Assessing risk and adaptation options across socioeconomic groups in Bonn, Germany

Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Physical and Mental Self-rated Health Across 10 Ethnic Groups in the United States

Background and aims: The aim of this study was to explore ethnic differences in demographic and socioeconomic determinants of poor physical and mental self-rated health (SRH) in the United States. Methods: We used data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) 2001- 2003, which included a national household probability sample of 18237 individuals including 520 Vietnamese, 5...

EPMA-World Congress 2011 in Bonn, Germany

Assessing Heat Health Risk for Sustainability in Beijing’s Urban Heat Island

This research is motivated by the increasing threat of urban heat waves that are likely worsened by pervasive global warming and urbanization. Different regions of the city including urban, borderland and rural area will experience different levels of heat health risk. In this paper, we propose an improved approach to quantitatively assess Beijing’s heat health risk based on three factors from ...

Psychological Adaptation To Heat Stress

By Ralph A. Vernacchia, Ph.D., and Sylvia Veit-Hartley, B.A. Center for Performance Enhancement, Western Washington University This excellent work by Vernacchia and Veit-Hartley was presented at the Coaching Education Level III in December, 1998. It not only shows the quality of the authors’ research and writing, but also the what one might fi nd at a Level III seminar. Both authors are to be c...

Analysis of the subsurface urban heat island in Oberhausen, Germany

Soil temperature (tB) was determined down to 2 m below ground level at 8 locations in the city of Oberhausen, Ruhr area, Germany, between August 2010 and July 2011 to investigate the subsurface urban heat island (SUHI) and its impact on drinking water quality. The soil temperatures obtained in Oberhausen demonstrate typical location-dependent behaviour. At the depth of drinking water pipes (1 t...