Reddit discussions could help improve public health messaging on heat

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261024/Reddit-discussions-could-help-improve-public-health-messaging-on-heat.aspx Two years ago, Robbie M. Parks, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg, director of climate and disaster resilience at Americares, founded an online community on Reddit, r/heat_prep, where members share information and advice about coping with extreme temperatures. A new article in the Journal of Climate Change and Health details the growing community, its concerns, and its potential to model how to communicate about climate change-related extreme heat and other public health concerns.