Urban heat: an increasing threat to global health

BMJ. 2021 Oct 25:375:n2467. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2467.

Shilu Tong^{1

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¹ Shanghai Children's Medical Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² School of Public Health, Institute of Environment and Population Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
³ Centre of Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
⁴ School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
⁵ Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
⁶ Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
⁷ National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
⁸ Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

Abstract

Shilu Tong and colleagues describe the health consequences of extreme urban heat and the priorities for action and research to mitigate the harms