New approach to identifying proper thresholds for a heat warning system using health risk increments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A critical adaptation strategy for reducing heat-related health risk under climate change is to establish a heat warning system with a proper threshold that requires evaluation of heat-health relationships using empirical data.

Objectives

This work presents a new approach to selecting proper health-based thresholds for a heat warning system which are different from thresholds of heat-health relationship.

Methods

The proposed approach examined heat-health relationships through analyzing 15 years of health records with a modified generalized additive model (GAM), compared risk ratio increments (RRIs) of threshold candidates against a reference, assessed frequency of days above these candidates, and presented results graphically for easy communication. The can

SUBMITTER: Cheng YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7126132 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature