High Summer Temperatures and Mortality in Estonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

On-going climate change is predicted to result in a growing number of extreme weather events-such as heat waves-throughout Europe. The effect of high temperatures and heat waves are already having an important impact on public health in terms of increased mortality, but studies from an Estonian setting are almost entirely missing. We investigated mortality in relation to high summer temperatures and the time course of mortality in a coastal and inland region of Estonia.

Methods

We collected daily mortality data and daily maximum temperature for a coastal and an inland region of Estonia. We applied a distributed lag non-linear model to investigate heat related mortality and the time course of mortality in Estonia.

Results

We found an immediate increase in mo

SUBMITTER: Oudin Astrom D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4864204 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature