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  • Environmental health
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Public health indicators

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  • Climate change poses significant threats to population health, particularly in rural areas with vulnerable populations and limited infrastructure.
  • Rural regions experience unique challenges including economic uncertainty, less resilient infrastructure, and reduced access to community and emergency services.
  • Existing public health frameworks often overlook the specific climate-related vulnerabilities of rural communities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and adapt climate and health environmental public health indicators for a rural local health department.
  • To identify key climate-related hazards and associated vulnerabilities in Western Kentucky.
  • To provide actionable data for enhancing public health services in rural settings.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network's framework for climate and health indicators.
  • Conducted a three-step review process to identify primary climate-related hazards (extreme heat, drought, flooding) for a seven-county region.
  • Defined "high vulnerability" indicators as those performing poorly at the county level compared to state and national data.

Main Results:

  • Identified primary climate-related hazards including extreme heat, drought, and flooding for Western Kentucky.
  • Developed a suite of exposure, health outcome, population vulnerability, and environmental vulnerability indicators.
  • Identified six to eight high vulnerability indicators for each of the seven counties.

Conclusions:

  • The developed indicators provide a localized assessment of climate-related public health vulnerabilities in rural Western Kentucky.
  • The local health department will utilize these findings to strengthen epidemiology, public health preparedness, and community health assessment.
  • This work offers a model for adapting national frameworks to meet the specific needs of rural public health departments facing climate change impacts.