Universal thermal climate index associations with mortality, hospital admissions, and road accidents in Bavaria

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0259086
• Main Authors: Ghada, Wael, Estrella, Nicole, Ankerst, Donna P., Menzel, Annette
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.11.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Accidents; Accidents, Traffic - mortality; Admission and discharge; Adult; Age; Aged; Alpine regions; Biology and Life Sciences; Biometeorology; Child; Climate; Climate change; Climatic changes; Climatic indexes; Cold; Earth Sciences; Environmental aspects; Extreme values; Extreme weather; Fatalities; Female; Geography; Germany - epidemiology; Health risks; Heat; Heat stress; Heat tolerance; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Humidity; Influence; Injuries; Life sciences; Lungs; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meteorological conditions; Morbidity; Mortality; Patient admissions; Physiology; Population; Precipitation; Radiation; Resource allocation; Respiratory diseases; Roads; Roads & highways; Seasons; Summer; Temperature; Traffic accidents; Trauma; Weather; Weather conditions; Weather extremes; Well being; Wind; Winter; Germany; Czech Republic; Bavaria Germany; France; United States > US; Europe

When meteorological conditions deviate from the optimal range for human well-being, the risks of illness, injury, and death increase, and such impacts are feared in particular with more frequent and intense extreme weather conditions resulting from climate change. Thermal indices, such as the univer...