Heat stress and public health: a critical review.

By R. Kovats, S. Hajat. Annual Review of Public Health, 2008

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology

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Review of evidence on health aspects of air pollution – REVIHAAP Project. Technical Report. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe 2013 (2013, methodology): “γ were obtained from Krewski et al. (2009). The uncertainty in these parameter estimates was based on a single cohort study and determined by sampling uncertainty.”
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022 (2023, background): “Physiological differences and sociocultural factors have been suggested as potential explanations for these gaps 35–37 , but we also found that differences in age structure between men and women partly explained the higher risk for women at advanced ages and for men at younger ages.”
Contrasting responses of urban and rural surface energy budgets to heat waves explain synergies between urban heat islands and heat waves (2015, background): “They are one of the most important regional and global causes ofweather-relatedmortality (Harlan et al 2006, Kovats and Hajat 2008, Anderson and Bell 2011, Petkova et al 2014, Wu et al 2014).”
The 2006 California Heat Wave: Impacts on Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits (2008, background): “The health impacts of climate change are gaining considerable attention (Frumkin et al. 2008), with increases in heat wave–related illness and death among the most likely related challenges to public health (Confalonieri et al. 2007; Jackson and Naumoff Shields 2008; Kovats and Hajat 2008).”
Improving health through policies that promote active travel: a review of evidence to support integrated health impact assessment. (2011, background): “Heat island effects may impede nighttime cooling and thus may enhance heat-related adverse outcomes in urban environments (Kovats and Hajat, 2008).”
Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe (2020, background): “Combined with other risk factors such as age, certain noncommunicable diseases, socio-economic disadvantages, and the urban heat island effect, extreme heat impacts become even more acute with climate change (Kovats and Hajat 2008).”