Gender inequalities in heat-related mortality in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378289%3A_____%2F23%3A00573607" target="_blank" >RIV/68378289:_____/23:00573607 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/23:97205
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-023-02507-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-023-02507-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02507-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00484-023-02507-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gender inequalities in heat-related mortality in the Czech Republic
Original language description
It is acknowledged that climate change exacerbates social inequalities, and women have been reported as more vulnerable to heat than men in many studies in Europe, including the Czech Republic. This study aimed at investigating the associations between daily temperature and mortality in the Czech Republic in the light of a sex and gender perspective, taking into account other factors such as age and marital status. Daily mean temperature and individual mortality data recorded during the five warmest months of the year (from May to September) over the period 1995–2019 were used to fit a quasi-Poisson regression model, which included a distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) to account for the delayed and non-linear effects of temperature on mortality. The heat-related mortality risks obtained in each population group were expressed in terms of risk at the 99th percentile of summer temperature relative to the minimum mortality temperature. Women were found generally more at risk to die because of heat than men, and the difference was larger among people over 85 years old. Risks among married people were lower than risks among single, divorced, and widowed people, while risks in divorced women were significantly higher than in divorced men. This is a novel finding which highlights the potential role of gender inequalities in heat-related mortality. Our study underlines the relevance of including a sex and gender dimension in the analysis of the impacts of heat on the population and advocates the development of gender-based adaptation policies to extreme heat.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-24920S" target="_blank" >GA22-24920S: Links between weather, epidemics and seasonal mortality patterns</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Biometeorology
ISSN
0020-7128
e-ISSN
1432-1254
Volume of the periodical
67
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1373-1385
UT code for WoS article
001025579600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85164305643