Impacts of Hot and Cold Spells for Non-communicable Diseases
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biometeorology and Bioclimatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2022) | Viewed by 8003
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate; cardiovascular diseases; cold spells; hot spell
Interests: biostatistics; associations between space weather and human health; effects of weather and air pollution on human health; environment; epidemiology
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Interests: population and cohort-based studies; non-communicable disease epidemiology; metabolic diseases epidemiology; cardiovascular disease risk factors; primary and secondary prevention; environmental pollution and health; alcohol and drug abuse; children’s environment and health; psychosocial factors of the work environment; nutrition and health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environment has a major impact on human beings. Extreme environmental conditions such as hot or cold temperatures can have huge health impacts. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are very sensitive to environmental conditions. Natural and anthropogenic disasters can cause the collapse of health infrastructure through a combination of a marked increase in demand due to injuries, diseases, and increased stress levels and transport disasters that follows such disasters. Extreme weather events and disasters are predicted to increase in the course of the ongoing climate change. Therefore, impacts on NCDs are very likely to increase, which raises the importance of the hitherto paucity of knowledge about this research area.
The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase the new results of associations between weather and various aspects of human health in direct and indirect ways. The main topics of this Issue are:
(1) the impact of cold spells on humans,
(2) the impact of hot spells on humans,
(3) the complex effect of hot or cold spells and other environmental phenomena (e.g., atmospheric pressure, seasonality, air pollution, and teleconnection patterns) on the risk of adverse health events or fluctuations in the physiological variables in humans in different climate zones, and
(4) the prognosis of hot and cold spells for the future.
Dr. Vidmantas Vaičiulis
Prof. Dr. Jonė Venclovienė
Prof. Dr. Ričardas Radišauskas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- meteorology
- climate
- non-communicable diseases
- cold spells
- hot spells
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