Comparing temperature-related mortality impacts of cool roofs in winter and summer in a highly urbanized European region for present and future climate.

ABSTRACT: Human health can be negatively impacted by hot or cold weather, which often exacerbates respiratory or cardiovascular conditions and increases the risk of mortality. Urban populations are at particular increased risk of effects from heat due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect (higher urban temperatures compared with rural ones). This has led to extensive investigation of the summertime UHI, its impacts on health, and also the consideration of interventions such as reflective 'cool' roofs to help reduce summertime overheating effects. However, interventions aimed at limiting summer heat are rarely evaluated for their effects in wintertime, and thus their overall annual net impact on temperature-related health effects are poorly understood. In this study we use a regional weather model to

SUBMITTER: Macintyre HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214226 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature