Urban-hazard risk analysis: mapping of heat-related risks in the elderly in major Italian cities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short-term impacts of high temperatures on the elderly are well known. Even though Italy has the highest proportion of elderly citizens in Europe, there is a lack of information on spatial heat-related elderly risks.

Objectives

Development of high-resolution, heat-related urban risk maps regarding the elderly population (≥ 65).

Methods

A long time-series (2001-2013) of remote sensing MODIS data, averaged over the summer period for eleven major Italian cities, were downscaled to obtain high spatial resolution (100 m) daytime and night-time land surface temperatures (LST). LST was estimated pixel-wise by applying two statistical model approaches: 1) the Linear Regression Model (LRM); 2) the Generalized Additive Model (GAM). Total and elderly population densit

SUBMITTER: Morabito M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4436225 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature