RAPID: Responding to extreme heat in the time of COVID-19

RAPID：应对 COVID-19 时期的极端高温

基本信息

批准号：
2031217
负责人：
Olga Wilhelmi
金额：
$ 19.99万
依托单位：
University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-06-01 至 2021-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031217&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RAPID Responding extreme heat time

项目摘要

Responding to extreme heat conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic could place many vulnerable populations at further risk during the warm summer months when many people leave their houses to escape the heat and visit cooling centers and other public spaces. People’s vulnerability is likely to vary over time and space, shifting with the extent of exposure to extreme heat, differences in policy and community response, and disease pressure from COVID-19. By assessing experiences, risk perceptions, behaviors, and perceived ability to respond to these conditions, the investigators will improve the understanding of how people cope with and adapt to multiple evolving hazards. The project will contribute to broader efforts to understand and reduce population health risks from extreme weather events during a global pandemic. The project’s findings will be broadly disseminated to researchers, public health and emergency management practitioners, and the public. This project brings together theory and methods from geography and behavioral sciences to develop new knowledge about the interactions among people, their environment, and multiple evolving hazards. This research will build on existing theoretical foundations and empirical knowledge and will examine how extreme weather conditions, COVID-19, local policies, and environmental and socio-demographic characteristics affect the public’s risk perceptions, behaviors, and ability to take protective measures. The investigators will conduct a series of georeferenced nationally representative surveys combined with spatially explicit modeling with questions about COVID-19 and extreme heat risk perceptions and experiences, self-reported symptoms of heat stress and COVID-19, household coping capacity, self-efficacy, and protective behaviors undertaken to reduce vulnerability. The project findings will inform risk communication and public health intervention strategies aimed at reducing extreme heat and COVID-19-related impacts that can be generalized for other multi-hazard events.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在夏季，许多人离开房屋逃脱热量并参观冷却中心和其他公共场所时，对19009年大流行期间极端热量状况的反应可能会使许多脆弱的人群面临进一步的风险。人们的脆弱性可能会随着时间和空间而变化，随着暴露于极端热量的程度，政策和社区反应的差异以及Covid-19的疾病压力。通过评估经验，风险感知，行为和对这些条件做出反应的感知能力，研究人员将提高人们对人们如何应对并适应多种不断发展的危害的理解。该项目将有助于更广泛的努力，以理解和降低全球大流行期间极端天气事件的人口健康风险。该项目的调查结果将广泛传播给研究人员，公共卫生和紧急管理从业人员以及公众。该项目汇集了从地理和行为科学的理论和方法，以发展有关人们之间的相互作用和多种不断发展的危害的新知识。这项研究将以现有的理论基础和经验知识为基础，并将研究极端天气条件，COVID-19，当地政策以及环境和社会人口统计学特征如何影响公众的风险感知，行为以及采取受保护措施的能力。研究人员将进行一系列全国范围内代表的调查，并结合空间明确的建模以及有关COVID-19的问题以及极端的热风险感知和经验，热应激和共同压力的自我报告症状，家庭应对能力，自我效能，自我效能感以及受到降低脆弱性的保护行为。该项目的发现将为风险沟通和公共卫生干预策略提供介绍，旨在减少极端热量和相关的19与19与COVID相关的影响，这些影响可以推广到其他多危险事件。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。