Extreme Heat and Ozone in Houston: Assessing and Reducing Health Risks
Abstract
Extreme heat and air pollution are leading causes of weather-related human mortality in the United States. Although population-based studies have demonstrated associations between ambient air pollution, extreme heat, and human health, the relative influence of indoor exposure to heat and poor air quality remains underexplored. Heat and Ozone in Metropolitan Environments: Assessing Indoor Risks (HOME AIR) is a multi-year, collaborative EPA-funded project, which investigates the vulnerability of older adults to extreme heat and ozone in Houston, Texas with the goal to better understand and reduce negative health impacts. This presentation will describe the interdisciplinary facets of the HOME AIR project and introduce a methodology for estimating household- and neighborhood-level indoor air pollution and heat exposure. We will focus on the spatio-temporal distribution of heat and ozone in Houston, present key findings from the 2017 Houston household survey, discuss health risks to air pollution and extreme heat, indoors and outdoors, and conclude with illustrating a stakeholder engagement process in the HOME AIR study.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMGH21A..07W
- Keywords:
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- 0230 Impacts of climate change: human health;
- GEOHEALTHDE: 1626 Global climate models;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 6309 Decision making under uncertainty;
- POLICY SCIENCES