Keeping Each Other Safe: Who Checks on Their Neighbors During Weather Extremes in Summer and Winter?
Lisa Reyes MasonChristine C EkengaPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2021)
Community-based partnerships for reducing risk during weather extremes may consider people who are older or have experienced their own adverse health impacts as initial target groups for promoting neighbor checking. Future research should also examine the motivations for, details about, and impacts of neighbor checking in greater depth.