Project description
Heat-related mortality due to climate change
Climate change is associated with human casualties and hospitalisation due to heat exposure. However, although climate change’s impact on human health is widely studied, few works are dedicated to heat-related mortality in Europe over the past century. The EU-funded ATTACH project will focus on recent European heatwaves using death count and hospitalisation statistics from major German cities. The project will combine pioneering epidemiological methods with an innovative approach to climate impact attribution to generate counterfactual climate data, mimicking a world without climate change, from detrended observations. ATTACH will ensure dissemination activities in line with the Paris Agreement to increase adaptation measures for health protection from the consequences of climate change.
Objective
Climate change is known to affect deaths and hospitalizations associated with heat exposure in Europe. Yet, despite a broad epidemiological knowledge base on the future impacts of climate change, few studies so far have formally attributed heat-related mortality and morbidity to climate change that has already occurred over the past century. ATTACH contributes to the closing of this important research gap, with a special focus on recent European heatwaves. The project will make use of death count and hospitalization statistics from major cities in Germany, and will combine state-of-the-art epidemiological approaches (time-series Poisson regression including distributed-lag non-linear models, and meta-regression techniques) with an innovative approach to climate impact attribution. This novel approach derives counterfactual climate data, mimicking a world without climate change, from detrended observations. In line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, effective communication and dissemination activities will ensure that results can be applied to improve adaptation measures for protection of population health from the adverse consequences of climate change. The institutional and training arrangements will guarantee an impactful knowledge transfer between the applicant and the host, opening up opportunities for fruitful collaboration at the interface of epidemiology and climate sciences. Overall, ATTACH will significantly improve the prospective of the applicant for developing a career as an independent research group leader in the field of climate change and health.
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- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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80539 Planegg
Germany
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