Extreme temperatures in summer time. Health implications

• Main Authors: Julio Díaz Jiménez, Cristina Linares Gil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedad Española de Sanidad Ambiental 2005-12-01
• Series: Revista de Salud Ambiental
• Subjects: temperatura; mortalidad; olas de calor; planes de prevención
• Online Access: https://ojs.diffundit.com/index.php/rsa/article/view/305

<p>The increment that has been detected in summer temperatures in the last years joined to the trends expected to climate for the next century provide an increase in frequency and intensity of the extreme climate events, basically in heat waves. The undoubted relationship between temperature and mortality makes necessary a quantifying in order to characterize the expected effects of temperature over mortality particularly in heat waves.</p><p>This study show a state-of-the-art review this problem, with a special emphasis in the heat wave that Europe suffered in summer of 2003 and how the heat waves has been characterized until now. Lastly, which are the characteristics that should have the preventive measures designed to minimized the effects of heat waves over population ́s health.</p>