Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures

In Japan, in response to the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a ‘new normal’ in the era of the COVID-19 was proposed by the government, which calls for thorough wearing of masks as an infection control measure in the era of the COVID-19, but related heat illness has been a great con...

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Autores principales: Uryu, Shinya, Tanoue, Yuta, Nomura, Shuhei, Matsuura, Kentaro, Makiyama, Koji, Kawashima, Takayuki, Yoneoka, Daisuke, Eguchi, Akifumi, Kawamura, Yumi, Gilmour, Stuart, Sakamoto, Haruka, Shimizu, Kazuki, Ng, Chris Fook Sheng, Hashizume, Masahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33454494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144723
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author Uryu, Shinya
Tanoue, Yuta
Nomura, Shuhei
Matsuura, Kentaro
Makiyama, Koji
Kawashima, Takayuki
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Eguchi, Akifumi
Kawamura, Yumi
Gilmour, Stuart
Sakamoto, Haruka
Shimizu, Kazuki
Ng, Chris Fook Sheng
Hashizume, Masahiro
author_facet Uryu, Shinya
Tanoue, Yuta
Nomura, Shuhei
Matsuura, Kentaro
Makiyama, Koji
Kawashima, Takayuki
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Eguchi, Akifumi
Kawamura, Yumi
Gilmour, Stuart
Sakamoto, Haruka
Shimizu, Kazuki
Ng, Chris Fook Sheng
Hashizume, Masahiro
author_sort Uryu, Shinya
collection PubMed
description In Japan, in response to the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a ‘new normal’ in the era of the COVID-19 was proposed by the government, which calls for thorough wearing of masks as an infection control measure in the era of the COVID-19, but related heat illness has been a great concern this summer. We applied quasi-Poisson regression models to the daily number of emergency transportations due to heat illness from 2008 to 2020 from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, to estimate the expected weekly number of emergency transportations from heat illness, with adjustment for their long-term trend and the weather conditions, including temperatures. We found that, at the national level, the number of heat illness emergency transports did not significantly increase or decrease from the annual trend in 2020. By prefecture, on the other hand, there were some prefectures in which the number of heat illness emergency transports was less than the average year, and most of them were in the week of August 10–16. By age group, the number of heat illness emergency transports in the 0–17 and 18–64 age groups was particularly low in some prefectures, and by severity, those in mild cases was particularly low. A caution is necessary that there is a possibility that a decrease in cases possibly associated with COVID-19 measures, such as, outdoor activity restrictions at schools/universities and cancellation of public events, may offset the possible increase in heat illness cases occurring elsewhere associated with wearing masks. Given that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is not expected yet, continuous and appropriate awareness-raising activities to prevent heat-related illness remain important.
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spelling pubmed-78314652021-01-26 Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures Uryu, Shinya Tanoue, Yuta Nomura, Shuhei Matsuura, Kentaro Makiyama, Koji Kawashima, Takayuki Yoneoka, Daisuke Eguchi, Akifumi Kawamura, Yumi Gilmour, Stuart Sakamoto, Haruka Shimizu, Kazuki Ng, Chris Fook Sheng Hashizume, Masahiro Sci Total Environ Short Communication In Japan, in response to the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a ‘new normal’ in the era of the COVID-19 was proposed by the government, which calls for thorough wearing of masks as an infection control measure in the era of the COVID-19, but related heat illness has been a great concern this summer. We applied quasi-Poisson regression models to the daily number of emergency transportations due to heat illness from 2008 to 2020 from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, to estimate the expected weekly number of emergency transportations from heat illness, with adjustment for their long-term trend and the weather conditions, including temperatures. We found that, at the national level, the number of heat illness emergency transports did not significantly increase or decrease from the annual trend in 2020. By prefecture, on the other hand, there were some prefectures in which the number of heat illness emergency transports was less than the average year, and most of them were in the week of August 10–16. By age group, the number of heat illness emergency transports in the 0–17 and 18–64 age groups was particularly low in some prefectures, and by severity, those in mild cases was particularly low. A caution is necessary that there is a possibility that a decrease in cases possibly associated with COVID-19 measures, such as, outdoor activity restrictions at schools/universities and cancellation of public events, may offset the possible increase in heat illness cases occurring elsewhere associated with wearing masks. Given that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is not expected yet, continuous and appropriate awareness-raising activities to prevent heat-related illness remain important. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-05-10 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7831465/ /pubmed/33454494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144723 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Short Communication
Uryu, Shinya
Tanoue, Yuta
Nomura, Shuhei
Matsuura, Kentaro
Makiyama, Koji
Kawashima, Takayuki
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Eguchi, Akifumi
Kawamura, Yumi
Gilmour, Stuart
Sakamoto, Haruka
Shimizu, Kazuki
Ng, Chris Fook Sheng
Hashizume, Masahiro
Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title_full Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title_fullStr Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title_full_unstemmed Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title_short Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures
title_sort trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the covid-19 era, in japan and 47 prefectures
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33454494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144723
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