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The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study

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Publication Date

August 1, 2022

Open Access

Yes

Abstract / Description

The health impacts of climate warming are usually quantified based on daily average temperatures. However, extra health risks might result from hot nights. We project the future mortality burden due to hot nights.

Authors

  • Cheng He (School of Public Health, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Key Lab of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education and NHC Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University)
  • Ho Kim (Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University)
  • Masahiro Hashizume (Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)

Additional Credits

Whanhee Lee (Ewha Womans University),

Yasushi Honda (University of Tsukuba)

Satbyul Estella Kim (University of Tsukuba)

Patrick L. Kinney (Boston University)

Alexandra Schneider (Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH))

Yuqiang Zhang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Yixiang Zhu (Fudan University)

Lu Zhu (Fudan University)

Renjie Chen (Fudan University)

Haidong Kan (Fudan University)

Publisher

Lancet Planet Health

Suggested Citation

The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study, He, Cheng et al. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, Issue 8, e648 – e657