The Construction and Validation of the Heat Vulnerability Index

Heat Vulnerability Index Released by Multnomah County Health ...

The resulting risk of heat-related illness and death is a serious public health concern for county residents. Multnomah County Environmental ...

A methodological assessment of extreme heat mortality ... - CDN

... heat vulnerability index (HVI), which aggregates indicators of vulnerability ... The Construction and Validation of the Heat Vulnerability Index, a Review.

Development of a heat vulnerability index for New York State.

Census tract level environmental and sociodemographic heat-vulnerability variables were used to develop the HVI to identify heat-vulnerable populations and ...

Gauging Heat Vulnerability in Southeast Florida: A Multimodal ...

Physical exposure and several adaptive capacity indicators (libraries/malls, medical facilities, and swimming pools) required conversion to the ...

Health effects of heat vulnerability in Rio de Janeiro: a validation ...

A zero-inflated model indicates that the vulnerability index is statistically significant at 99.9% level and one increase in the vulnerability ...

A review - eCommons@AKU

For developing a heat vulnerability assessment tool, it is essential to understand the development and validation of the pre-existing tools/.

Assessing the Performance of a Vulnerability Index ... - AMS Journals

This model utilizes multiple Poisson regression to analyze mortality in Georgia, with mortality as the response variable and the HVI and oppressive heat as the ...

Inclusion of child-relevant data in the development and validation of ...

This heat vulnerability index is described across two papers by Maier and colleagues, one focused on the development and the other focused on ...

A systematic review of the development and validation of the heat ...

Purpose of review This review aims to identify the key factors, methods, and spatial units used in the development and validation of the heat vulnerability ...

Wisconsin's Heat Vulnerability Index, P-00882

Analysis of 60 years of weather trend data by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts. (WICCI) has indicated that Wisconsin has become warmer.

A systematic review of construction and application of the heat risk ...

An increasing number of researchers have been working on collecting multiple heat-related indicators such as regional sociodemographic and environmental factors ...

Identify Heat-Related Vulnerabilities and Impacts

Vulnerability assessments often analyze how temperature is distributed throughout an area (see Conduct a Baseline Heat Risk Assessment), age, income, and other ...

A spatial decision support system for identifying heat vulnerability ...

This project will be achieved through accomplishing three thrusts: Heat Exposure Index (HEI) development (Thrust I), Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) ...

Heat Vulnerability Index for Urban Heat wave Risk Adaptation for ...

The Construction and Validation of the Heat Vulnerability. Index, a Review, 7220–7234. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707220. Barker, T. 2007. Climate ...

Heat Vulnerability Index Development and Mapping

This paper developed an HVI web map tool incorporating both the outdoor and the indoor heat exposure, as well as population sensitivity and adaptation.

New Jersey Heat Vulnerability Index Technical Documentation

Adaptive capacity is the ability of the individual or community to respond to and take action to mitigate the hazards associated with extreme ...

Approaches for identifying heat-vulnerable populations and locations

Generally, validation results showed significant correlations between heat vulnerability indices and morbidity/mortality rates but the effect sizes are between ...

National Heat Vulnerability Index Reveals Neighborhoods at High ...

A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has developed a metric to gauge heat vulnerability at the census-tract level and ...

A GIS-based framework to assess heatwave vulnerability and impact ...

The assessment of heatwave impact scenarios takes account of the major risk factors for residents who are most inclined to suffer heat ...

Do Spatial Heat Vulnerability Assessment Studies Influence Policy?

[24] and Reid et al [21] in fact describe the testing/validation of vulnerability indices based on PCA or Factor Analysis presented in separate ...