Summer Heat and Mortality in New York City: How Hot Is Too Hot? | Zendy

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Summer Heat and Mortality in New York City: How Hot Is Too Hot?

Author(s) -

Kristina B. Metzger,

Kazuhiko Ito,

Thomas Matte

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0900906

Subject(s) - index (typography) , heat index , poisson regression , urban heat island , statistics , nonparametric statistics , poisson distribution , mathematics , medicine , climatology , meteorology , geography , population , environmental health , geology , world wide web , computer science , relative humidity

To assess the public health risk of heat waves and to set criteria for alerts for -excessive heat, various meteorologic metrics and models are used in different jurisdictions, generally without systematic comparisons of alternatives. We report such an analysis for New York City that compared maximum heat index with alternative metrics in models to predict daily variation in warm-season natural-cause mortality from 1997 through 2006.

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