Moving in a hotter world : maintaining adequate childhood fitness as a climate change countermeasure

Morrison, Shawnda A. (avtor)

Children cope with high temperatures differently than adults do, largely because of slight alterations in their body proportions and heat loss mechanisms compared to fully mature humans. Paradoxically, all current tools of assessing thermal strain have been developed on adults. As the Earth’s warming continues to accelerate, children are set to bear the health risk brunt of rising global temperatures. Physical fitness has a direct impact on heat tolerance, yet children are less fit and more obese than ever before. Longitudinal research reveals that children have 30% lower aerobic fitness than their parents did at the same age; this deficit is greater than can be recovered by training alone. So, as the planet’s climate and weather patterns become more extreme, children may become less capable of tolerating it. This comprehensive review provides an outline of child thermoregulation and assessment of thermal strain, before moving to summarize how aerobic fitness can modulate hyperthermia, heat tolerance, and behavioral thermoregulation in this under-researched population. The nature of child physical activity, physical fitness, and one’s physical literacy journey as an interconnected paradigm for promoting climate change resilience is explored. Finally, future research foci are suggested to encourage continued exploration of this dynamic field, notable since more extreme, multifactorial environmental stressors are expected to continue challenging the physiological strain of the human population for the foreseeable future.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: sport, children, exercise, heat stress, behavioral thermoregulation, physical activity, tolerance, environmental epidemiology
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FŠ - Fakulteta za šport
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: Str. 179–197
• Številčenje: Vol. 10, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-147125
• UDK: 796:502/504
• ISSN pri članku: 2332-8959
• DOI: 10.1080/23328940.2022.2102375
• COBISS.SI-ID: 119659011
• Datum objave v RUL: 23.06.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Temperature
• Skrajšan naslov: Temperature
• Založnik: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 2332-8959
• COBISS.SI-ID: 114596099

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• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
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Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: šport, otroci, telovadba, toplotni stres, termoregulacija, telesna dejavnost, strpnost, okoljska epidemiologija