Estimating policy-relevant health effects of ambient heat exposures using spatially contiguous reanalysis data

• Main Authors: Temilayo E. Adeyeye (Author), Tabassum Z. Insaf (Author), Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan (Author), Seema G. Nayak (Author), Neil Stuart (Author), Stephen DiRienzo (Author), William L. Crosson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Regional National Weather Service (NWS) heat advisory criteria in New York State (NYS) were based on frequency of heat events estimated by sparse monitoring data. These may not accurately reflect temperatures at which specific health risks occur in large geographic regions. The o...