Heat-waves and Mortality in Czech Cities: A Case Study for the Summers of 2015 and 2016

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/19:73596823 RIV/00020699:_____/19:N0000080 RIV/61989592:15210/19:73596823

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5937/gp23-22853" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5937/gp23-22853</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/gp23-22853" target="_blank" >10.5937/gp23-22853</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Heat-waves and Mortality in Czech Cities: A Case Study for the Summers of 2015 and 2016

Original language description

The aim of this paper was to assess the impact of heat-waves on mortality in ten Czech cities, using data recorded during the summers of 2015 and 2016. Temperature-related mortality during heat-waves was investigated by comparing mortality figures on heat-wave days and those on other days by means of the Mann-Whitney U test. Results for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases (CVD+R) mortality, as well as for mortality in the over-65 age group, show statistically significant differences (p &lt;0.05) during heat-waves compared with other days in seven of ten cities investigated. The effect of heat-waves on mortality did not reach statistical significance in Olomouc, Plzen and Liberec. The results suggest that further studies addressing spatial patterns of mortality during heat-waves in urban areas are required to assess the vulnerability of the urban populations in particular cities and types of neighbourhood.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geographica Pannonica

ISSN

0354-8724

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

RS - THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

162-172

UT code for WoS article

000488980300002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85081670007