This is the Heat's burden, its penance for that audacious party last summer, when James predicted "four, five, six, seven" championships after a smoke-filled, bass-thumping introduction.
Contemporary Roman gossip, faithfully reproduced by later historians, naturally assumed some jealousy between the stripling so suddenly exalted and the veteran who had borne the heat and burden of the day.
Reduction of the heat-health burden could be achieved by existing and new intervention strategies tailored to the particular communities where the historical risk has been greatest.
To project such impacts, however, exposure outcome associations will be needed, not just to characterize acute heat illness burdens but also to characterize increases in other heat-associated illness, as discussed above.
The increased demand for EMS calls reported in this study captures an additional heat-health burden on the population that is not likely to be reflected in the hospitalization or mortality data.
The elderly are more vulnerable to heat-related mortality, so the changing population structure (Vincent and Velkoff 2010) may also lead to an increased health burden from heat.
In a previous work, we identified the most relevant syndromes for evaluating the health burden of heat waves through syndromic surveillance in real time [9].
As the number of heat-related RHAs is expected to increase on the subcontinental scale, additional national or regional projections of the future health burden from heat are needed that will take into account possible changes in exposure and vulnerability.
Demands for electricity during heat waves can burden power infrastructure, and even lead to large-scale power failures.
This result suggests that the health burden attributable to heat in Brisbane might be reduced through geographically targeted intervention measures.
