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2024-04-04
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Climate change is causing serious damage to natural and social systems, as well as having an impact on human health. Among the direct effects of climate change is the rise in global surface temperatures and the increase in the frequency, duration, intensity and severity of heat waves. In addition, understanding of the adaptation process of the exposed population remains limited, posing a challenge in accurately estimating heat-related morbidity and mortality. In this context, this study seeks to establish a conceptual framework that would make it easier to understand and organise knowledge about human adaptation to heat and the factors that may influence this process. An inductive approach based on grounded theory was used, through the analysis of case studies connecting concepts. The proposed conceptual framework is made up of five components (climate change, vulnerability, health risks of heat, axes of inequality and health outcomes), three heat-adaptation domains (physiological, cultural and political), two levels (individual and social), and the pre-existing before a heat event. The application of this conceptual framework facilitates the assistance of decision-makers in planning and implementing effective adaptation measures. Recognizing the importance of addressing heat adaptation as a health problem that calls for political solutions and social changes. Accordingly, this requires a multidisciplinary approach that would foster the participation and collaboration of multiple actors for the purpose of proposing effective measures to address the health impact of the rise in temperature.
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The registered version of this article, first published in Environmental Research, is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118803
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Environmental Research, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118803
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Environmental Research, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118803
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adaptation, climate change, heat, conceptual framework, mortality
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Navas-Martín, M. Á., Cuerdo-Vilches, T., López-Bueno, J. A., Díaz, J., Linares, C., & Sánchez-Martínez, G. (2024). Human adaptation to heat in the context of climate change: A conceptual framework. Environmental Research, 252, 118803.
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Instituto Mixto de Investigación - IMIENS - Escuela Nacional de Sanidad