2012
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-133
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Mortality on extreme heat days using official thresholds in Spain: a multi-city time series analysis

Abstract: BackgroundThe 2003 heat wave had a high impact on mortality in Europe, which made necessary to develop heat health watch warning systems. In Spain this was carried-out by the Ministry of Health in 2004, being based on exceeding of city-specific simultaneous thresholds of minimum and maximum daily temperatures. The aim of this study is to assess effectiveness of the official thresholds established by the Ministry of Health for each provincial capital city, by quantifying and comparing the short-term effects of … Show more

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“…Recent research on this topic established that in Spain as a whole the risk of mortality on a heat-wave day is 24 % greater than on a day without a heat wave. In the context of CLM, this figure rises to 35 % (Tobías et al 2012). This pattern is similar to some foreign studies which show acclimatization of people living in southern warmer climates and less negative effects of warm temperatures (Khanjani and Bahrampour 2013).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…Recent research on this topic established that in Spain as a whole the risk of mortality on a heat-wave day is 24 % greater than on a day without a heat wave. In the context of CLM, this figure rises to 35 % (Tobías et al 2012). This pattern is similar to some foreign studies which show acclimatization of people living in southern warmer climates and less negative effects of warm temperatures (Khanjani and Bahrampour 2013).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…This same conclusion was reached by another study that covered all of Spain's cities using different methodologies (Tobías, Zuza, et al 2012).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 70%
“…There is, however, evidence to show that the climatological bases of these annual plans were not the most appropriate Tobias et al 2012) and that prevention plans must be based on threshold temperatures calculated with epidemiological criteria for each province. The plans implemented in Castile-La Mancha in 2004 were not based on these epidemiological criteria, and the results yielded have not been satisfactory (Culqui et al 2013).…”
Section: Causesmentioning
confidence: 96%