Health & Social Assessment

Characterize heat vulnerability through the lens of socio-demographic and health components. Understand the social composition of the areas most and least exposed to extreme heat to assist with prioritizing hazard adaptation activities. 

Deliverable

Report detailing relationship between socio-demographics, health risk factors, and heat, spatial assets with metadata.

Process

Analyze the relationship between heat, socio-demographic data, and health indicators.

Impacts

Evidence base

Vulnerability insights

Response planning

Report Sample

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Project Example

Dallas, TX

CAPA analyzed the relationship between two Heat Watch campaigns in Dallas Texas and CDC/Census heat vulnerability indicators at the census tract level. Health indicators included coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and poor mental health. Socio-demographic indicators included populations aged below 5/over 65, poverty, living alone, lack of high school diplomas, disabilities, no/lack health insurance, unemployment, and limited English proficiency. Findings showed distinct clusters of census tracts with high heat and high vulnerability and others with low heat and high vulnerability. Spatial assets of these data were provided to support future heat mitigation and adaptation planning activities.