2016 Progress Report: Indoor Environment and Emergency Response Health Outcomes
EPA Grant Number: R835749Title: Indoor Environment and Emergency Response Health Outcomes
Investigators: Uejio, Christopher K , Tamerius, James D
Institution: Florida State University , University of Iowa
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2018 (Extended to April 30, 2020)
Project Period Covered by this Report: May 1, 2016 through April 30,2017
Project Amount: $500,000
RFA: Indoor Air and Climate Change (2014) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Air Quality and Air Toxics , Climate Change , Air
Objective:
The objectives of this study are 1) to quantify the relationship between indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity and the built environment; 2) find actionable thresholds linking indoor temperature, humidity, and the built environment to extreme heat (summer) and influenza like illness (winter) distress calls; 3) project future extreme heat disease burdens or influenza risk related to climatic, demographic, and built environment changes.
Progress Summary:
There is limited evidence directly linking indoor heat exposure to health outcomes. By partnering with Emergency Medical Services, our first publication (Uejio et al. 2016) observed indoor conditions of people receiving emergency care. The results suggest people may suffer from hot indoor environments even during “moderate” summer periods.
The second publication (Tamerius et al. 2017) is the first study to estimate temperature and humidity conditions during tropical influenza transmission in a real-world environment. We showed evidence of influenza transmission in extreme temperature and humidity conditions. For example, during one transmission period temperatures exceeded 39 ºC, and specific and relative humidity reached 22 g/kg and 85%, respectively.
The third publication (Jung and Uejio 2017) is the first study how people use social media to discuss extreme heat and air conditioning. In Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta, people talked about extreme heat and air conditioning more during hotter compared to cooler than normal periods.
Future Activities:
We are currently applying quality control and assurance procedures to the primary data. We will continue data analysis and manuscript writing into Fall/Winter 2017 and 2018. We will start to present preliminary results in 2018.
Journal Articles on this Report : 3 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Jung J, Uejio CK. Social media responses to heat waves. International Journal of Biometeorology 2017;61(7):1247-1260.
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Tamerius J, Ojeda S, Uejio CK, Shaman J, Lopez B, Sanchez N, Gordon A. Influenza transmission during extreme indoor conditions in a low-resource tropical setting. International Journal of Biometeorology 2017;61(4):613-622.
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Uejio CK, Tamerius JD, Vredenburg J, Asaeda G, Isaacs DA, Braun J, Quinn A, Freese JP. Summer indoor heat exposure and respiratory and cardiovascular distress calls in New York City, NY, US. Indoor Air 2016; 26(4):594-604.
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Supplemental Keywords:
air, ambient air, indoor air, exposure, health effects, human health, vulnerability, sensitive populations, elderly, age, race, viruses, epidemiology, climatology, modeling, monitoring, analytical, climate models, Northeast, SoutheastRelevant Websites:
http://www.jamestamerius.com/ Exit