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    • Assessing heat effects on respiratory mortality and location characteristics as modifiers of heat effects at a small area scale in Central-Northern Europe 

      Zafeiratou, Sofia; Samoli, Evangelia; Analitis, Antonis; Gasparrini, Antonio; Stafoggia, Massimo; De'Donato, Francesca K.; Rao-Skirbekk, Shilpa; Zhang, Siqi; Breitner, Susanne; Masselot, Pierre; Aunan, Kristin; Schneider, Alexandra; Katsouyanni, Klea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Heat effects on respiratory mortality are known, mostly from time-series studies of city-wide data. A limited number of studies have been conducted at the national level or covering non-urban areas. Effect modification by ...

    • Assessment of short-term heat effects on cardiovascular mortality and vulnerability factors using small area data in Europe 

      Zhang, Siqi; Breitner, Susanne; Rai, Masna; Nikolaou, Nikolaos; Stafoggia, Massimo; de' Donato, Francesca; Samoli, Evangelia; Zafeiratou, Sofia; Katsouyanni, Klea; Rao-Skirbekk, Shilpa; Diz-Lois Palomares, Alfonso; Gasparrini, Antonio; Masselot, Pierre; Aunan, Kristin; Peters, Annette; Schneider, Alexandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Short-term associations between heat and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality have been examined mostly in large cities. However, different vulnerability and exposure levels may contribute to spatial heterogeneity. This ...

    • A better integration of health and economic impact assessments of climate change 

      Orlov, Anton; Schleypen, Jessie; Aunan, Kristin; Sillmann, Jana; Gasparrini, Antonio; Mistry, Malcolm N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Climate change could lead to high economic burden for individuals (i.e. low income and high prices). While economic conditions are important determinants of climate change vulnerability, environmental epidemiological studies ...

    • Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health and agricultural productivity 

      Sillmann, Jana; Aunan, Kristin; Emberson, Lisa; Büker, Patrick; van Oort, Bob; O'Neill, Connie; Otero, Noelia; Pandey, Divya; Brisebois, Anouk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Climate change and air pollution can interact to amplify risks to human health and crop production. This has significant implications for our ability to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. SDGs 2, 3, 13, 15) and ...

    • Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming 

      Orlov, Anton; Sillmann, Jana; Aunan, Kristin; Kjellström, Tord E.; Aaheim, Hans Asbjørn (Journal article, 2020)
      We assess economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity at global scale under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5. Losses in worker productivity are calculated by using an empirically estimated epidemiological exposure-response ...

    • A global review of the state of the evidence of household air pollution's contribution to ambient fine particulate matter and their related health impacts 

      Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Pillarisetti, Ajay; Oberholzer, Alicia; Jetter, James; Mitchell, John; Cappuccilli, Eva; Aamaas, Borgar; Aunan, Kristin; Pozzer, Andrea; Alexander, Donee (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Direct exposure to household fine particulate air pollution (HAP) associated with inefficient combustion of fuels (wood, charcoal, coal, crop residues, kerosene, etc.) for cooking, space-heating, and lighting is estimated ...

    • Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions 

      Hess, Jeremy J.; Ranadive, Nikhil; Boyer, Chris; Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz; Anenberg, Susan C.; Aunan, Kristin; Belesova, Kristine; Bell, Michelle L.; Bickersteth, Sam; Bowen, Kathryn; Burden, Merci; Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid; Carlton, Elisabeth; Cissé, Guéladio; Cohen, Francois; Dai, Hancheng; Dangour, Alan David; Dasgupta, Purnamita; Frumkin, Howard; Gong, Peng; Gould, Robert J.; Haines, Andy; Hales, Simon; Hamilton, Ian; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Hashizume, Masachiro; Honda, Yusushi; Horton, Daniel E.; Karambelas, Alexandra; Kim, HO; Kim, Satbyul Estella; Kinney, Patrick L.; Koné, Inza; Knowlton, Kim; Lelieveld, Jos; Limaye, Vijay S.; Liu, Quyong; Madaniyazi, Lina; Martinez, Micaela Elvira; Mauzerall, Denise L.; Milner, James; Neville, Tara; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Pachauri, Shonali; Perera, Frederica P.; Pineo, Helen; Remais, Justin V.; Saari, Rebecca K.; Sampedro, Jon; Scheelbeek, Pauline; Schwartz, Joel; Shindell, Drew; Syamsundar, Priya; Taylor, Timothy J.; Tonne, Cathryn; Vuuren, Detlef Van; Wang, Can; Watts, Nicholas; West, J. Jason; Wilkinson, Paul; Wood, Stephen A.; Woodcock, James; Woodward, Alistair; Xie, Yang; Zhang, Ying; Ebi, Kristie L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: Modeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious and health-protective ...

    • Health and Climate Impacts of Scaling Adoption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for Clean Household Cooking in Cameroon: A Modeling Study 

      Kypridemos, Chris; Puzzolo, Elisa; Aamaas, Borgar; Hyseni, Lirije; Shupler, Matthew; Aunan, Kristin; Pope, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: The Cameroon government has set a target that, by 2030, 58% of the population will be using Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as a cooking fuel, in comparison with less than 20% in 2014. The National LPG Master ...

    • Health Benefits and Costs of Clean Heating Renovation: An Integrated Assessment in a Major Chinese City 

      Zhao, Bin; Zhao, Jing; Zha, Hao; Hu, Ruolan; Liu, Yalu; Liang, Chengrui; Shi, Hongrong; Chen, Simiao; Guo, Yue; Zhang, Da; Aunan, Kristin; Zhang, Shaojun; Zhang, Xiliang; Xue, Lan; Wang, Shuxiao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      China has been promoting one of the world’s largest campaigns for clean heating renovation since 2017. Here, we present an integrated cost–benefit analysis in a major prefecture-level city by combining a large-scale household ...

    • Heat Stress Indicators in CMIP6: Estimating Future Trends and Exceedances of Impact-Relevant Thresholds 

      Schwingshackl, Clemens; Sillmann, Jana; Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana; Sandstad, Marit; Aunan, Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Global warming is leading to increased heat stress in many regions around the world. An extensive number of heat stress indicators (HSIs) has been developed to measure the associated impacts on human health. Here we ...

    • Impact of heat on all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A multi-city study in Texas 

      Guo, Chunyu; Lanza, Kevin; Li, Dongying; Zhou, Yuyu; Aunan, Kristin; Loo, Becky P.Y.; Lee, Jason Kai Wei; Luo, Bin; Duan, Xiaoli; Zhang, Wangjian; Zhang, Zhengjun; Lin, Shao; Zhang, Kai (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Studies on the health effects of heat are particularly limited in Texas, a U.S. state in the top 10 highest number of annual heat-related deaths per capita from 2018 to 2020. This study assessed the effects of heat on ...

    • Internal migration and urbanization in China: Impacts on population exposure to household air pollution (2000-2010) 

      Aunan, Kristin; Wang, Shuxiao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Exposure to fine particles ≤2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) from incomplete combustion of solid fuels in household stoves, denoted household air pollution (HAP), is a major contributor to ill health in China and ...

    • Mobility in Blue-Green Spaces Does Not Predict COVID-19 Transmission: A Global Analysis 

      Venter, Zander; Sadilek, Adam; Stanton, Charlotte; Barton, David Nicholas; Aunan, Kristin; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Schneider, Aaron; Iacus, Stefano Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic ostensibly prevented the public from transmitting the disease in public places, but they also hampered outdoor recreation, despite the importance of blue-green spaces ...

    • Neglected implications of land-use and land-cover changes on the climate-health nexus 

      Orlov, Anton; Aunan, Kristin; Mistry, Malcolm N; Lejeune, Quentin; Pongratz, Julia; Thiery, Wim; Gasparrini, Antonio; Reed, Eilif Ursin; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Climate change can substantially affect temperature-related mortality and morbidity, especially under high greenhouse gas emission pathways. Achieving the Paris Agreement goals require not only drastic reductions in fossil ...

    • Personal exposure to PM2.5 in Chinese rural households in the Yangtze River Delta 

      Hansen, Mette Halskov; Aunan, Kristin; Hu, Ruolan; Wang, Shuxiao; Liu, Zhaohui; Zhao, M.J.; Chen, L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      High levels of PM2.5 exposure and associated health risks are of great concern in rural China. For this study, we used portable PM2.5 monitors for monitoring concentrations online, recorded personal time‐activity patterns, ...

    • Personal exposure to PM2.5 in Chinese rural households in the Yangtze River Delta 

      Hansen, Mette Halskov; Aunan, Kristin; Hu, Ruolan; Wang, Shuxiao; Liu, Zhaohui; Zhao, M.J.; Chen, L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      High levels of PM2.5 exposure and associated health risks are of great concern in rural China. For this study, we used portable PM2.5 monitors for monitoring concentrations online, recorded personal time‐activity patterns, ...

    • Public Health Measures to Address the Impact of Climate Change on Population Health—Proceedings from a Stakeholder Workshop 

      Jabakhanji, Samira Barbara; Arnold, Stephen Robert; Aunan, Kristin; Chersich, Matthew Francis; Jakobsson, Kristina; McGushin, Alice; Kelly, Ina; Roche, Niall; Stauffer, Anne; Stanistreet, Debbi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: The World Health Organization identified climate change as the 21st century’s biggest health threat. This study aimed to identify the current knowledge base, evidence gaps, and implications for climate action ...

    • A systematic review on the association between total and cardiopulmonary mortality/morbidity or cardiovascular risk factors with long-term exposure to increased or decreased ambient temperature 

      Zafeiratou, Sofia; Samoli, Evangelia; Dimakopoulou, Konstantina; Rodopoulou, Sophia; Analitis, Antonis; Gasparrini, Antonio; Stafoggia, Massimo; De' Donato, Francesca; Rao-Skirbekk, Shilpa; Monteiro, Ana; Rai, Masna; Zhang, Siqi; Breitner, Susanne; Aunan, Kristin; Schneider, Alexandra; Katsouyanni, Klea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The health effects of acute exposure to temperature extremes are established; those of long-term exposure only recently received attention. We performed a systematic review to assess the associations of long-term (>3 months) ...

    • The Hidden Hazard of Household Air Pollution in Rural China 

      Aunan, Kristin; Hansen, Mette Halskov; Liu, Zhaohui; Wang, Shuxiao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Air pollution in Chinese cities has become a major topic of public debate and political concern. At the same time, few rural areas are subjected to measurements of ambient air quality, and policy documents and media rarely ...

    • Upgrading to cleaner household stoves and reducing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among women in rural China — A cost-benefit analysis 

      Aunan, Kristin; Alnes, Line Winther Hansen; Berger, Janne; Dong, Zeqin; Ma, Liying; Staff, Heidi Elisabeth; Vennemo, Haakon; Wang, Shuxiao; Zhan, Wei (Journal article, 2013)