How Hot Is Too Hot and How Cold Is Too Cold? Estimating County-Level Relationships between Temperature and Mortality in California Counties

Eugenio Paglino , University of Pennsylvania

The relationship between temperature and mortality and particularly its geographical variability remains an understudied topic in demography and epidemiology. While many studies have investigated excess mortality during episodes of extreme heat, less attention has been devoted to understanding how mortality responds to temperatures between the extremes. Even fewer studies investigate how the relationship between temperature and mortality varies geographically and which factors explain this variability. This study aims to fill this gap starting with California counties, with the goal of extending the analysis to all counties in the United States.

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 Presented in Session P92. Climate Change, Morbidity and Mortality