A5042569643- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- High Altitude and Hypoxia
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
2020-2024
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2022-2024
Centre for Demographic Studies
2021
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2021
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology
2020
Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya
2019
Abstract Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting societal awareness led to design and implementation adaptation strategies protect at-risk populations. We aimed quantify heat-related mortality burden 2022, hottest season on record Europe. analyzed Eurostat database, which includes 45,184,044 counts death from 823 contiguous regions 35 European countries, representing whole population over 543 million people. estimated 61,672 (95% confidence...
BackgroundEurope has emerged as a major climate change hotspot, both in terms of an increase seasonal averages and extremes. Projections temperature-attributable mortality, however, have not been comprehensively reported for extensive part the continent. Therefore, we aim to estimate future effect on mortality across Europe.MethodsWe did time series analysis study. We derived temperature-mortality associations by collecting daily temperature all-cause records urban rural areas observational...
Abstract Aims We assessed the association of temperature and variability with cause-specific emergency hospitalizations mortality from cardiovascular respiratory diseases in Spain, as well effect modification this by individual contextual factors. Methods results collected data on health (hospital admissions mortality), weather (temperature relative humidity), relevant indicators for 48 Spanish provinces during 2004–2019. The statistical analysis was separately performed summer...
More frequent and intense exposure to extreme heat conditions poses a serious threat public health. However, evidence on the association between specific diagnoses of morbidity is still limited. We aimed comprehensively assess short-term cause-specific hospital admissions high temperature, including added effect temperature variability waves modification by humidity air pollution.
The year of 2024 was the warmest on record, both globally and in Europe, first to exceed 1.5°C global mean temperature above preindustrial level. Successive record-breaking temperatures recent years emphasized urgent need develop implement a new generation impact-based early-warning systems (EWS), using epidemiological models transform weather forecasts into health predictions (see https://forecaster.health/).Here we combined newly created daily continental mortality database...
Europe is a heatwave hotspot: numerous temperature records have been broken in recent summers, and roughly 60,000 50,000 heat-related deaths occurred the summers of 2022 2023, respectively. With like that 2022, projected to become new norm, there pressing need further develop heat-health warning systems help society adapt warming climate. Here, we forecast mortality by applying statistical epidemiological framework forecasts extending up two weeks advance. Focusing on exceptional summer...
Abstract Background Many foods have an antioxidant activity and nutrition may mitigate COVID-19. Some of the countries with a low COVID-19 mortality are those relatively high consumption traditional fermented foods. To test potential role in Europe, we performed ecological study. Methods The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Comprehensive Consumption Database was used to study country vegetables, pickled/marinated milk, yoghurt sour milk. We obtained per number inhabitants from Johns...
Distributed lag non-linear models (DLNMs) are the reference framework for modelling lagged associations. They usually used in large-scale multi-location studies. Attempts to study these associations small areas either did not include effects, allow geographically-varying risks or downscaled from larger spatial units through socioeconomic and physical meta-predictors when estimation of was feasible due low statistical power.
Numerous studies have demonstrated the relationship between summer temperatures and increased heat-related deaths. Epidemiological analyses of health effects climate exposures usually rely on observations from nearest weather station to assess exposure-response associations for geographically diverse populations. Urban models provide high-resolution spatial data that may potentially improve exposure estimates, but date, they not been extensively applied in epidemiological research. We...
Heat is a significant cause of mortality, but impact patterns are heterogenous. Previous studies assessing such heterogeneity focused exclusively on risk rather than heat-attributable mortality burdens and assume predictors independent.We assessed how four interrelated regional-level sociodemographic predictors-education, life expectancy, the ratio older to younger people (aging index), relative income-influence in Europe then derived insights into adaptation strategies.We extracted outcomes...
Daylight saving time (DST) consists in a one-hour advancement of legal spring offset by backward transition the same magnitude fall. It creates minimal circadian misalignment that could disrupt sleep and homoeostasis susceptible individuals lead to an increased incidence pathologies accidents during weeks immediately following both transitions. How this shift affects mortality dynamics on large population scale remains, however, unknown. This study examines impact DST all-cause 16 European...
A number of studies have reported reductions in mortality risk due to heat and cold over time. However, questions remain about the drivers these adaptation processes ambient temperatures. We aimed analyse demographic socioeconomic downward trends vulnerability heat- cold-related observed Spain during recent decades (1980-2018).We collected data on all-cause mortality, temperature relevant contextual indicators for 48 provinces mainland Balearic Islands between Jan 1, 1980, Dec 31, 2018....
Abstract Background Many foods have an antioxidant activity, and nutrition may mitigate COVID-19. To test the potential role of vegetables in COVID-19 mortality Europe, we performed ecological study. Methods The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Comprehensive Consumption Database was used to study country consumption Brassica (broccoli, cauliflower, head cabbage (white, red savoy cabbage), leafy brassica) compare them with spinach, cucumber, courgette, lettuce tomato. per number...
Background: A number of studies have reported reductions in mortality risk due to heat and cold over time. However, questions remain about the drivers these adaptation processes ambient temperatures. We aimed analyse demographic socioeconomic downward trends vulnerability heat- cold-related observed Spain during recent decades (1980-2018). Methods: collected data on all-cause mortality, temperature relevant contextual indicators for 48 provinces mainland Balearic Islands between Jan 1, 1980,...
Abstract Background Ambient temperature is a major environmental determinant of cardiovascular health. However, evidence on the association between and cause-specific health outcomes still limited. Moreover, little known about differential effects across population groups contextual factors that exacerbate or reduce vulnerability. A comprehensive assessment therefore needed to fill this literature gap, thus inform adaptation policies best tackle negative consequences climate change in...