The burden of heat-related mortality in Madrid: a hundred-year journey
The association between ambient temperatures and health outcomes was extensively studied in the past decades, especially in the light of exacerbating climate change. Yet long-term studies focusing on the analysis of the changes of mortality answers to extreme heat are rare, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Minimum Mortality, or so-called Optimum temperatures are increasingly used to assess the levels of adaptation to changing temperatures. The warming of the air temperatures in Spain affected the entire national territory since the turn of the XX century. However, the number of studies exploring the evolution of adaptation to heat and relying on multidecadal time-series data in Spain at any administrative level is very limited. To our knowledge, the present research is the first one to leverage daily mortality and temperature data in the city of Madrid since the end of the XIX century until today.
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| Format: | Comunicación de Congreso biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Subjects: | Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/353125 |
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| Summary: | The association between ambient temperatures and health outcomes was
extensively studied in the past decades, especially in the light of exacerbating climate
change. Yet long-term studies focusing on the analysis of the changes of mortality
answers to extreme heat are rare, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Minimum
Mortality, or so-called Optimum temperatures are increasingly used to assess the levels
of adaptation to changing temperatures. The warming of the air temperatures in Spain
affected the entire national territory since the turn of the XX century. However, the
number of studies exploring the evolution of adaptation to heat and relying on
multidecadal time-series data in Spain at any administrative level is very limited. To our
knowledge, the present research is the first one to leverage daily mortality and
temperature data in the city of Madrid since the end of the XIX century until today. |
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