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Mar
27
2010

  • Interestingly, we also found that issues of identity are incredibly important within those apparently vulnerable populations (i.e. people with poor health status and therefore likely to suffer impacts in the context of heat waves or have increased levels of particular types of illness or even mortality). For those populations we also found a small sub group whose identity was all about their independence. These were elderly people who basically told us, “I’m not vulnerable to the impacts of heat waves because I’m not elderly!” They have very high self-efficacy and actually their whole identity was about being independent and therefore denying the risk of, “Oh, this doesn’t relate to me, because this is actually about my independence”. So the lessons from that research do speak across to those ideas of well-being and resilience because resilience is clearly something that a community has, and a resilient community is likely to have high levels of social capital, high levels of interaction and collective action and community and people looking out for each other.
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