This story from Brock University is relevant to how Canada and the Caribbean are beginning to experience extreme heat.
April 10, 2024
As scientists express concern over the world’s hottest March on record — the 10th record-breaking month in a row — a Brock University physiology expert is calling for a more holistic way of determining the health risks posed by extreme heat.
“Public health messages tend to be oversimplified to say things like, ‘At this temperature, people are susceptible to heat stroke, and at this maximum temperature, people will die,’” says Professor of Kinesiology Toby Mündel. “The truth is much more nuanced when you take many other factors into consideration.”
Mündel is part of an international research team that published a review study in March challenging conventional methods of calculating the risk of illness and death from extreme high temperatures.
The team recommends that expertise in human physiology be added to weather and epidemiological data, which is information on patterns of diseases in populations.
The Brock News, April 10, 2024