2026-10-08 上海交通大学（SJTU）
Figure 2. The Integrative Thermal Health framework
＜関連情報＞
- https://global.sjtu.edu.cn/en/news-events/news/3399
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03950-w
統合的な温熱健康フレームワークは、温熱快適性を超えた健康結果と熱曝露を結びつける Integrative thermal health framework links heat exposure to health outcomes beyond thermal comfort
Li Lan, Zisheng Huang, Pixin Gong, Fujie Rao & Zhiqiang John Zhai
Communications Earth & Environment Published:02 September 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03950-w Early provide
Abstract
Maintaining healthy thermal environments has long focused on people’s subjective satisfaction with temperature conditions – commonly termed thermal comfort. This approach, however, underrepresents how heat, thermal environments, adaptive response, and health outcomes interact. As climate change drives more frequent and intense heatwaves, there is an urgent need to move beyond thermal comfort and its close variations such as thermal stress, toward a broader, more integrated concept of thermal health. Here we show the Integrative Thermal Health (ITH) framework comprising eight key hallmarks across physiological and psychological health through scientific literature examination combining conventional bibliometric techniques with machine learning. These hallmarks sit within four key stages of the health continuum, from mortality to wellbeing and span the full 24-hour cycle of daily life. The framework provides a broader foundation for understanding how thermal environments—mediated by human activities—shape health, clarifies causal pathways, supports wider health indicators, and guides research and policy amid growing heat-related health risks.
