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Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland
Defining health-based thresholds for effective heat warnings is crucial for climate change adaptation strategies. Translating the non-linear function between heat and health effects into an effective threshold for heat warnings to protect the population is a challenge. We present a systematic analys...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10049426/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064958 |
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author | Ragettli, Martina S. Saucy, Apolline Flückiger, Benjamin Vienneau, Danielle de Hoogh, Kees Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana M. Schindler, Christian Röösli, Martin |
author_facet | Ragettli, Martina S. Saucy, Apolline Flückiger, Benjamin Vienneau, Danielle de Hoogh, Kees Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana M. Schindler, Christian Röösli, Martin |
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description | Defining health-based thresholds for effective heat warnings is crucial for climate change adaptation strategies. Translating the non-linear function between heat and health effects into an effective threshold for heat warnings to protect the population is a challenge. We present a systematic analysis of heat indicators in relation to mortality. We applied distributed lag non-linear models in an individual-level case-crossover design to assess the effects of heat on mortality in Switzerland during the warm season from 2003 to 2016 for three temperature metrics (daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperature), and various threshold temperatures and heatwave definitions. Individual death records with information on residential address from the Swiss National Cohort were linked to high-resolution temperature estimates from 100 m resolution maps. Moderate (90th percentile) to extreme thresholds (99.5th percentile) of the three temperature metrics implied a significant increase in mortality (5 to 38%) in respect of the median warm-season temperature. Effects of the threshold temperatures on mortality were similar across the seven major regions in Switzerland. Heatwave duration did not modify the effect when considering delayed effects up to 7 days. This nationally representative study, accounting for small-scale exposure variability, suggests that the national heat-warning system should focus on heatwave intensity rather than duration. While a different heat-warning indicator may be appropriate in other countries, our evaluation framework is transferable to any country. |
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spelling | pubmed-100494262023-03-29 Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland Ragettli, Martina S. Saucy, Apolline Flückiger, Benjamin Vienneau, Danielle de Hoogh, Kees Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana M. Schindler, Christian Röösli, Martin Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Defining health-based thresholds for effective heat warnings is crucial for climate change adaptation strategies. Translating the non-linear function between heat and health effects into an effective threshold for heat warnings to protect the population is a challenge. We present a systematic analysis of heat indicators in relation to mortality. We applied distributed lag non-linear models in an individual-level case-crossover design to assess the effects of heat on mortality in Switzerland during the warm season from 2003 to 2016 for three temperature metrics (daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperature), and various threshold temperatures and heatwave definitions. Individual death records with information on residential address from the Swiss National Cohort were linked to high-resolution temperature estimates from 100 m resolution maps. Moderate (90th percentile) to extreme thresholds (99.5th percentile) of the three temperature metrics implied a significant increase in mortality (5 to 38%) in respect of the median warm-season temperature. Effects of the threshold temperatures on mortality were similar across the seven major regions in Switzerland. Heatwave duration did not modify the effect when considering delayed effects up to 7 days. This nationally representative study, accounting for small-scale exposure variability, suggests that the national heat-warning system should focus on heatwave intensity rather than duration. While a different heat-warning indicator may be appropriate in other countries, our evaluation framework is transferable to any country. MDPI 2023-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10049426/ /pubmed/36981871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064958 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ragettli, Martina S. Saucy, Apolline Flückiger, Benjamin Vienneau, Danielle de Hoogh, Kees Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana M. Schindler, Christian Röösli, Martin Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title | Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title_full | Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title_fullStr | Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title_full_unstemmed | Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title_short | Explorative Assessment of the Temperature–Mortality Association to Support Health-Based Heat-Warning Thresholds: A National Case-Crossover Study in Switzerland |
title_sort | explorative assessment of the temperature–mortality association to support health-based heat-warning thresholds: a national case-crossover study in switzerland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10049426/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064958 |
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