Extreme heat and pregnancy outcomes: a scoping review of the epidemiological evidence

S Syed, TL O'Sullivan, KP Phillips - International journal of environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Extreme heat caused by climate change is a major public health concern,
disproportionately affecting poor and racialized communities. Gestational heat exposure is a …

Perception, physiological and psychological impacts, adaptive awareness and knowledge, and climate justice under urban heat: A study in extremely hot-humid …

BJ He, D Zhao, X Dong, K Xiong, C Feng, Q Qi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban heat, the combined effect of heatwaves and urban heat islands (UHIs), is a severe
challenge for many cities around the world. While there have been numerous studies on …

Early-life exposures and social stratification

F Torche, J Nobles - Annual Review of Sociology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Adverse environmental exposures—war and violence, natural disasters, escalating heat,
worsening air quality—experienced in pregnancy are consequential for multiple domains of …

Cause-related injustice, process-related injustice, effect-related injustice and regional heat action planning priorities: An empirical study in Yangtze River Delta and …

BJ He - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban heat has affected numerous cities with increasingly severe environmental, social,
economic, and health impacts. It is urgent to develop plans and take actions to beat the heat …

The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China

Y Hua, Y Qiu, X Tan - Journal of Population Economics, 2023 - Springer
We examine the effects of ambient temperatures on mental health using a nationally
representative longitudinal survey of Chinese individuals. We find that temperatures over …

Global warming and urbanization

M Helbling, D Meierrieks - Journal of population economics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Analyzing 118 countries between 1960 and 2016, we find that higher temperatures
correlate with higher urbanization rates in the long run, where this relationship is much more …

Air pollution and infant mortality: evidence from China

L Wang, T Shi, H Chen - Economics & Human Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Using a newly assembled prefecture-city level dataset from 2004 to 2015, this paper
examines the impact of air pollution on child mortality in China. To identify the causal effect …

Extreme heat, birth outcomes, and socioeconomic heterogeneity

R Conte Keivabu, M Cozzani - Demography, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
We investigate the effect of extreme heat on birth outcomes and how this effect may vary by
family socioeconomic status (SES). We create a detailed data set by linking individual-level …

Extreme temperatures during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: Evidence from 2009 to 2018 US national birth data

G Cil, J Kim - Health Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first estimates of the impacts of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures
on infant health at birth using the latest national birth data from 2009 to 2018 from all US …

Temperature, climate change, and birth weight: evidence from Hungary

T Hajdu, G Hajdu - Population and Environment, 2021 - Springer
We analyze the impact of in utero temperature exposure on the birth weight and an indicator
for low birth weight using administrative data on singleton live births conceived between …