Estimating policy-relevant health effects of ambient heat exposures using spatially contiguous reanalysis data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regional National Weather Service (NWS) heat advisory criteria in New York State (NYS) were based on frequency of heat events estimated by sparse monitoring data. These may not accurately reflect temperatures at which specific health risks occur in large geographic regions. The objectives of the study were to use spatially resolved temperature data to characterize health risks related to summertime heat exposure and estimate the temperatures at which excessive risk of heat-related adverse health occurs in NYS. We also evaluated the need to adjust current heat advisory threshold and messaging based on threshold temperatures of multiple health outcomes.

Methods

We assessed the effect of multi-day lag exposure for maximum near-surface air temperature (T_max)

SUBMITTER: Adeyeye TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6471902 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature