Social determinants of heat-related mortality in England: a time-stratified case-crossover study using primary care records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite increases in heat-related deaths in England, there has been limited progress in developing interventions in primary care that identify and target individuals at risk. Lack of understanding of individual-level socioenvironmental risk factors limits development of an evidence-based approach to targeted prevention.

Objective

To identify individual-level non-clinical risk factors for heat-related mortality in England using primary care records and to assess the potential of these socio-environmental factors as effect modifiers for the association between ambient temperature and death.

Methods

A time-stratified case-crossover analysis was undertaken of nine potential risk factors at the individual level and categorised into risk factor subgroups. 430 682

SUBMITTER: Thompson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12315017 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature