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ProfessorMarisaMiraldo

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Professor in Health Economics and Policy
 
 
 
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@article{Rizmie:2022:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115193,
author = {Rizmie, D and de, Preux L and Miraldo, M and Atun, R},
doi = {10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115193},
journal = {Social Science & Medicine},
pages = {115193--115193},
title = {Impact of extreme temperatures on emergency hospital admissions by age and socio-economic deprivation in England: Evidence from six diseases},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115193},
volume = {308},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to population health and health systems’ resilience, with increasing fluctuations in extreme temperatures through pressures on hospital capacity. While earlier studies have estimated morbidity attributable to hot or cold weather across cities, we provide the first large-scale, population-wide assessment of extreme temperatures on inequalities in excess emergency hospital admissions in England. We used the universe of emergency hospital admissions between 2001 and 2012 combined with meteorological data to exploit daily variation in temperature experienced by hospitals (N=29,371,084). We used a distributed lag model with multiple fixed-effects, controlling for seasonal factors, to examine hospitalisation effects across temperature-sensitive diseases, and further heterogeneous impacts across age and deprivation. We identified larger hospitalisation impacts associated with extreme cold temperatures than with extreme hot temperatures. The less extreme temperatures produce admission patterns like their extreme counterparts, but at lower magnitudes. Results also showed an increase in admissions with extreme temperatures that were more prominent among older and socioeconomically-deprived populations - particularly across admissions for metabolic diseases and injuries.
AU  - Rizmie,D
AU  - de,Preux L
AU  - Miraldo,M
AU  - Atun,R
DO  - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115193
EP  - 115193
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0277-9536
SP  - 115193
TI  - Impact of extreme temperatures on emergency hospital admissions by age and socio-economic deprivation in England: Evidence from six diseases
T2  - Social Science & Medicine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115193
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622004993?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/98310
VL  - 308
ER  -
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