Sufficiently wealthy people can thrive in any climate and are better protected against all extreme weather
events than poor people.
Not exact matches
There is no need to accuse
people of
poor planning to realize that a rational citizen may well decide that money is better spent on near - term expenses (for example, their children's education)
than on saving for an unlikely
event.
After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those
people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular
event than those
people with
poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand,
people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse
event.
Older
people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat
events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the
poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change
than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the
poorer segments of our population (Ch.