Hot Topic: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis of Heat-Related Messages During the 2021 Heat Dome in Canada

Emily J Tetzlaff1, Nicholas Goulet, Melissa Gorman

  • 1Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences (Ms Tetzlaff, Mr Goulet, and Drs Meade and Kenny) and Behavioural and Metabolic Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences (Mr Goulet), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Climate Change and Innovation Bureau, Safe Environments Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Mss Tetzlaff and Gorman and Messrs Goulet, Richardson, and Enright); Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Mr Enright); Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Meade); and Clinical Epidemiology Program, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Dr Kenny).

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