Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers
Background : Understanding which populations are vulnerable and which factors affect vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations is important to reduce the health burden from current day weather extremes and climate change. Objectives: We reviewed population-based studies on the impact of te...
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| description | Background : Understanding which populations are vulnerable and which factors affect vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations is important to reduce the health burden from current day weather extremes and climate change. Objectives: We reviewed population-based studies on the impact of temperature on mortality and assessed the vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations systematically. Methods: We identified 207 studies published between 1980 and 2017 and summarized findings on effect modification based on individual- and community-level characteristics. Results: In our assessment of vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations, we found strong evidence of effect modification for several individual-level factors such as age and sex. We also found limited or suggestive evidence for other individual-level factors such as education, place of death, occupation, race, marital status, and chronic conditions. Evidence on effect modification by community-level characteristics for temperature-mortality associations is limited. We found weak evidence of effect modification for population density, heating system, healthcare facilities, proximity to water, housing quality, and air pollution level. We found limited or suggestive evidence for community-level socio-economic status, latitude, urban/rural, air conditioning, climatic condition, green space, and previous winter mortality. Conclusions: Our findings provide scientific evidence on which populations could be targeted for establishing appropriate strategies to reduce the health burden from extreme temperatures, and for policies on climate change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-779d56e6e8b64f08b1339a052abf34082023-08-09T14:44:18ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262019-01-0114707300410.1088/1748-9326/ab1cdbTemperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiersJi-Young Son0Jia Coco Liu1Michelle L Bell2School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University , CT, United States of AmericaDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, United States of AmericaSchool of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University , CT, United States of AmericaBackground : Understanding which populations are vulnerable and which factors affect vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations is important to reduce the health burden from current day weather extremes and climate change. Objectives: We reviewed population-based studies on the impact of temperature on mortality and assessed the vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations systematically. Methods: We identified 207 studies published between 1980 and 2017 and summarized findings on effect modification based on individual- and community-level characteristics. Results: In our assessment of vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations, we found strong evidence of effect modification for several individual-level factors such as age and sex. We also found limited or suggestive evidence for other individual-level factors such as education, place of death, occupation, race, marital status, and chronic conditions. Evidence on effect modification by community-level characteristics for temperature-mortality associations is limited. We found weak evidence of effect modification for population density, heating system, healthcare facilities, proximity to water, housing quality, and air pollution level. We found limited or suggestive evidence for community-level socio-economic status, latitude, urban/rural, air conditioning, climatic condition, green space, and previous winter mortality. Conclusions: Our findings provide scientific evidence on which populations could be targeted for establishing appropriate strategies to reduce the health burden from extreme temperatures, and for policies on climate change.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab1cdbeffect modificationmortalitytemperaturevulnerability |
| spellingShingle | Ji-Young Son Jia Coco Liu Michelle L Bell Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers Environmental Research Letters effect modification mortality temperature vulnerability |
| title | Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| title_full | Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| title_fullStr | Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| title_short | Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| title_sort | temperature related mortality a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers |
| topic | effect modification mortality temperature vulnerability |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab1cdb |
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