Urbanization Level and Vulnerability to Heat-Related Mortality in Jiangsu Province, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although adverse effects of high temperature on mortality have been studied extensively in urban areas, little is known of the heat-mortality associations outside of cities.

Objective

We investigated whether heat-mortality associations differed between urban and nonurban areas and how urbanicity affected the vulnerability to heat-related mortality.

Methods

We first analyzed heat-related mortality risk in each of 102 counties in Jiangsu Province, China, during 2009-2013 using a distributed-lag nonlinear model. The county-specific estimates were then pooled for more urban (percentage of urban population ≥ 57.11%) and less urban (percentage of urban population < 57.11%) counties using a Bayesian hierarchical model. To explain the spatial variation in associati

SUBMITTER: Chen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5132638 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature