Spatial Variability of Heat-Related Mortality in Barcelona from 1992-2015: A Case Crossover Study Design.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have demonstrated the relationship between summer temperatures and increased heat-related deaths. Epidemiological analyses of the health effects of climate exposures usually rely on observations from the nearest weather station to assess exposure-response associations for geographically diverse populations. Urban climate models provide high-resolution spatial data that may potentially improve exposure estimates, but to date, they have not been extensively applied in epidemiological research. We investigated temperature-mortality relationships in the city of Barcelona, and whether estimates vary among districts. We considered georeferenced individual (natural) mortality data during the summer months (June-September) for the period 1992-2015. We extracted daily summer mean t

SUBMITTER: Ingole V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7177772 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature