Objective
The main objectives of this study are to investigate the association between meteorological variables during the warm season and acute health effects (mortality, hospital admissions) in 17 large European cities, and to use these results to develop preventive strategies. The following issues will be evaluated: threshold levels of the weather variables, form of the dose-response curve, latency time between exposure and effect, specific air masses associated with health effects, interaction between weather and particulate matter or gaseous air pollutants. The effect in each city will be evaluated by time series analysis. Pooled analysis will provide results for large geographic areas. A heat/health watch warning system will be experimented, based on a synoptic approach and on forecast meteorological variables, to predict in advance oppressive weather conditions that could negatively affect health. At the general level the development of a heat/health watch warning system in European cities represents a unique innovation in the field of climate and health research in Europe. The study establishes the scientific basis for evaluating the health effects of global warming, and addresses the interaction between climatic conditions and air pollution.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- engineering and technology environmental engineering air pollution engineering
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Coordinator
00198 ROMA
Italy
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