Los Angeles Times | "Emergency room visits during heat waves available to the public in ‘near-real time’ in L.A. County”
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and director of the UCLA Fielding School's Center for Public Health and Disasters, about a Los Angeles County project to track the impact of heat-related emergency room visits and deaths.
For the first time, county residents can track weekly heat-related emergency room visits and deaths via a new public dashboard, offering near-real-time insight as dangerous heat waves intensify with climate change.
“It’s showing the county’s commitment to reducing the burden of heat on people’s health,” said David Eisenman, director of UCLA’s Center for Public Health and Disasters. “As the county puts more resources into that, this is a metric that allows the public to judge the effectiveness of the work.”
