Longer-Term Impact of Highand Low Temperature on Mortality: An International Study to Clarify Length of Mortality Displacement

Authors

Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Michelle Bell, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,Yale University
Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, University of Sao Paulo
Yue Liang Leon Guo, National Taiwan University
Yuming Guo, Monash University
Patrick J. Goodman, Technological University DublinFollow
Masahiro Hashizume, Nagasaki University
Yasushi Honda, University of Tsukuba
Ho Kim, Seoul National University
Eric Lavigne, University of Ottawa
Paola Michelozzi, Lazio Regional Health Service
Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, University of Sao Paulo
Joel Schwartz, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Matteo Scortichini, Lazio Regional Health Service
Francesco Sera, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Aurelio Tobias, IDAEA-CSIC
Shilu Tong, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Chang Fu Wu, National Taiwan University
Antonella Zanobetti, Harvart T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ariana Zeka, Brunel University
Antonio Gasparrini, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

1.5 EARTH AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Environmental sciences

Publication Details

Environmental Health Perspectives. October 27, Vol. 125, No. 10.

Abstract

In many places, daily mortality has been shown to increase after days with particularly high or low temperatures, but such daily time-series studies cannot identify whether such increases reflect substantial life shortening or short-term displacement of deaths (harvesting).

DOI

10.1289/EHP1756

Recommended Citation

Armstrong, B., Bell, M. & Goodman, P. (2017). Longer-Term Impact of Highand Low Temperature on Mortality: An International Study to Clarify Length of Mortality Displacement. Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 125, no. 10. Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Oct 27;125(10):107009. doi: 10.1289/EHP1756.