Temporal Variation in Heat-Mortality Associations: A Multicountry Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent investigations have reported a decline in the heat-related mortality risk during the last decades. However, these studies are frequently based on modeling approaches that do not fully characterize the complex temperature-mortality relationship, and are limited to single cities or countries.

Objectives

We assessed the temporal variation in heat-mortality associations in a multi-country data set using flexible modelling techniques.

Methods

We collected data for 272 locations in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with a total 20,203,690 deaths occurring in summer months between 1985 and 2012. The analysis was based on two-stage time-series models. The temporal variation in heat-mortality relationship

SUBMITTER: Gasparrini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4629745 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature