Relationship between Farmworker/Rural Community Indoor and Outdoor Heat Exposure
This project involves collaboration with Catherine Karr's HAPI team and uses existing data from Spector & HAPI studies
Proposed goal:
- Identify factors that influence the relationship between indoor and outdoor ambient temperature in rural housing between May-Sept
Potential aims:
- Aim 1: By building type/setting, describe any lag in warming and subsequent cooling of the indoor ambient temperature during warm days caused for example by thermal inertia of building materials
- Aim 2: Identify individual, house, and neighborhood factors, in addition to outdoor temps, that influence indoor temperature/humidity
- Aim 3: Assess whether lack of feelings of safety are related to warmer indoor temps and whether this relationship is mediated by less window-opening behaviors when windows can be opened
Results could inform:
- Understanding of the relationship between indoor and outdoor ambient temperature and identification of modifiable housing and other factors that affect this relationship in order to target household cooling strategies
- Improvements in heat exposure assessment approaches in order to include estimated indoor values in future studies of the relationship between heat exposure and outcomes