Methods to Estimate Acclimatization to Urban Heat Island Effects on Heat- and Cold-Related Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Investigators have examined whether heat mortality risk is increased in neighborhoods subject to the urban heat island (UHI) effect but have not identified degrees of difference in susceptibility to heat and cold between cool and hot areas, which we call acclimatization to the UHI.

Objectives

We developed methods to examine and quantify the degree of acclimatization to heat- and cold-related mortality in relation to UHI anomalies and applied these methods to London, UK.

Methods

Case-crossover analyses were undertaken on 1993-2006 mortality data from London UHI decile groups defined by anomalies from the London average of modeled air temperature at a 1-km grid resolution. We estimated how UHI anomalies modified excess mortality on cold and hot days for Londo

SUBMITTER: Milojevic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937865 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature