Socioeconomic level and associations between heat exposure and all-cause and cause-specific hospitalization in 1,814 Brazilian cities: A nationwide case-crossover study.
Rongbin XuQi ZhaoMicheline De Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio CoelhoPaulo H N SaldivaMichael John AbramsonShanshan LiYuming GuoPublished in: PLoS medicine (2020)
Less developed cities displayed stronger associations between heat exposure and all-cause hospitalizations and certain types of cause-specific hospitalizations in Brazil. This may exacerbate the existing geographical health and socioeconomic inequalities under a changing climate.