Limited access to cooling resources, health care and necessary supplies can all impact survival. — via healthing_ca
analysis of the French heat wave in 2003 that left 15,000 dead outlined how social isolation of senior residents, a decline in state services and the distinct Parisian infrastructure left the elderly to die alone in the heat under the iconic zinc roofs of Paris.
Like the COVID-19 pandemic, heat waves put existing systems of social and material infrastructure under pressure and reveal social fault lines. Higher rates of illness and mortality are exposed along the lines of income, education, race, disability and living and working environments. There is an urgent need to address deprivations in both material and social infrastructure by health and social policy-makers and urban designers.
Second, measures are often insular and focused on the health-care sector and do not consider the role of social vulnerability and social policies. The pandemic has drawn attention to the importance of the social determinants of health within our universal health system. This heat wave should hammer home the importance of social inclusion within “building back better” as we prepare for hotter temperatures.
Third, current cooling practices add further fuel to climate change. Air conditioner sales are up 60 per cent, according to some Canadian
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