Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks

KL Ebi, A Capon, P Berry, C Broderick, R de Dear… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Hot ambient conditions and associated heat stress can increase mortality and morbidity, as
well as increase adverse pregnancy outcomes and negatively affect mental health. High …

Heat-related mortality in Europe during 2023 and the role of adaptation in protecting health

E Gallo, M Quijal-Zamorano, RF Méndez Turrubiates… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The year of 2023 was the warmest on record globally and the second warmest in Europe.
Here we applied epidemiological models to temperature and mortality records in 823 …

The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study

C He, H Kim, M Hashizume, W Lee… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The health impacts of climate warming are usually quantified based on daily
average temperatures. However, extra health risks might result from hot nights. We project …

Extreme energy poverty: The aftermath of Lebanon's economic collapse

L Dagher, I Jamali, O Abi Younes - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
We collect primary data by conducting a survey on 931 Lebanese households who work in
seven pre-specified sectors across all Lebanese governorates. The survey was …

Integrated assessment of urban overheating impacts on human life

N Nazarian, ES Krayenhoff, B Bechtel… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major
contemporary challenge that substantially impacts urban livability and sustainability …

Diurnal interaction between urban expansion, climate change and adaptation in US cities

ES Krayenhoff, M Moustaoui, AM Broadbent… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Climate change and urban development are projected to substantially warm US cities, yet
dynamic interaction between these two drivers of urban heat may modify the warming. Here …

Energy poverty, climate shocks, and health deprivations

S Nawaz - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the impacts of multidimensional energy poverty and climate shocks on
multidimensional health deprivations in Pakistan. Results achieved by the empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Heat-related emergency department visits—United States, may–september 2023

A Vaidyanathan - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2024 - cdc.gov
Unprecedented heat waves can affect all persons, but some are more sensitive to the effects
of heat, including children and adults with underlying health conditions, pregnant women …

Air conditioning and heat-related mortality: a multi-country longitudinal study

F Sera, M Hashizume, Y Honda, E Lavigne… - …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Air conditioning has been proposed as one of the key factors explaining
reductions of heat-related mortality risks observed in the last decades. However, direct …