Zhiying Jiang, Ziqiang Lin, Zhixing Li, Min Yu, Guanhao He, Jianxiong Hu, Ruilin Meng, Zhulin Hou, Sui Zhu, Chunliang Zhou, Yize Xiao, Biao Huang, Xiaojun Xu, Donghui Jin, Mingfang Qin, Yiqing Xu, Tao Liu, Wenjun Ma
BACKGROUND: Several previous studies have examined the association of ambient temperature with drowning. However, no study has investigated the effects of heat-humidity compound events on drowning mortality. METHODS: The drowning mortality data and meteorological data during the five hottest months (May to September) were collected from 46 cities in Southern China (2013-2018 in Guangdong, Hunan and Zhejiang provinces). Distributed lag non-linear model was first conducted to examine the association between heat-humidity compound events and drowning mortality at city level...
March 5, 2024: Injury Prevention: Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention