Ambient Temperature and Health in China

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Overview of Climate Change in China

   • Changke Wang, Lin Zhao

   Pages 1-12

3. Ambient Temperature and Mortality in Chinese Population

   • Xiaojie Wang, Zengliang Ruan, Yin Yang, Siqi Ai, Lingli Zhang, Xiangyan Sun et al.

   Pages 13-25

4. Extreme Temperature Events and Mortality/Morbidity in China

   • Jun Yang, Junliang Wu, Mengmeng Li, Boguang Wang

   Pages 27-58

5. Health Impacts Due to Major Climate and Weather Extremes

   • Wei Ma, Baofa Jiang

   Pages 59-73

6. Ambient Temperature and Major Infectious Diseases in China

   • Xiaobo Liu, Jimin Sun, Xiaodong Liu, Jingchun Fan, Yanlin Niu, Lingling Lang et al.

   Pages 75-93

7. Ambient Temperature and Reproductive Health Outcomes

   • Minshan Lu, Xuan Zhao, Dongmei Wei, Jiaying Zhang, Yusi Li, Jianrong He et al.

   Pages 95-103

8. The Interaction of Ambient Temperature and Air Pollution in China

   • Yixuan Jiang, Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan

   Pages 105-116

9. Future Temperature-Related Mortality Risk Under Climate Change Scenarios

   • Tiantian Li, Zhiying Sun, Yi Zhang, Chen Chen, Jie Ban

   Pages 117-130

10. Comparison of Health Impact of Ambient Temperature Between China and Other Countries

    • Qi Zhao, Kejia Hu, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo

    Pages 131-151

11. Health Vulnerability Assessment to Climate Change in China

    • Tao Liu, Xing Li, Jianpeng Xiao, Weilin Zeng, Xin Liu, Baixiang Feng et al.

    Pages 153-169

12. Public Health Adaptation to Heat Waves in Response to Climate Change in China

    • Yiling He, Rui Ma, Meng Ren, Wenmin Liao, Na Zhang, Yanan Su et al.

    Pages 171-190

13. Perspectives and Future Research Directions on Climate Change and Health in China

    • Wenjun Ma, Jianpeng Xiao, Xing Li, Tao Liu, Weilin Zeng, Ruoxi Zhong

    Pages 191-196

This book focuses on the Chinese health impact induced by ambient temperature variation, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response relationship with the mortality and morbidity from respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health among Chinese population.A great number of epidemiological studies have reported that ambient temperature is closely associated with a wide range of health outcomes, such as mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory events, adverse birth outcome, and some infectious diseases, such as dengue fever, malaria. Although a number of epidemiological studies in western countries have evaluated the adverse health effects of ambient temperature, the exposure-response relationship from these countries cannot simply be applied to the Chinese population due to the large differences in temperature profile, exposure pattern, as well as the population vulnerability. This book will provide up-to-date estimates of the magnitude of adverse health effects of ambient temperature in the Chinese population. We hope to provide readers with a comprehensive and organized body of information in the area of Ambient Temperature and health.

• Climate change
• Human health
• Dose-response relationship
• Temperature
• China
• infectious diseases

“This book is written for practitioners and planners, especially those planning for future health contingencies in China. Doctors, public health workers, city planners, planners for rural modifications, and other professionals dealing with future needs in healthcare, heat reduction, and providing emergency support in temperature emergencies are the main audience, and they will need this book. … This book will be very useful to health workers planning for a hotter future.” (Eugene N. Anderson, Doody's Book Reviews, 27 September, 2019)

• School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  Hualiang Lin

• Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangzhou, China

  Wenjun Ma

• National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

  Qiyong Liu

Hualiang Lin: Hualiang Lin is an associate professor at Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University

Wenjun Ma is a professor at Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health


Qiyong Liu is a professor and chief scientist at National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

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