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Evidence for Urban-Rural Disparity in Temperature-Mortality Relationships in Zhejiang Province, China.

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Rural residents are more sensitive to both cold and hot temperatures than urban residents in Zhejiang Province, China, particularly the elderly, suggesting past studies using exposure–response functions derived from urban areas may underestimate the mortality burden for the population as a whole.
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Background: Temperature-related mortality risks have mostly been studied in urban areas, with limited evidence for urban–rural differences in the temperature impacts on health outcomes. Objectives:...

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Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed urban heat challenges following the SBAR (situation, background, assessment and recommendation) framework and found that heatwaves become more frequent, lasting and intense, especially after 1990s.

Heat- and cold-stress effects on cardiovascular mortality and morbidity among urban and rural populations in the Czech Republic

TL;DR: The slight differences between Prague and southern Bohemia in response to heat versus cold stress suggest the possible influence of environmental and socioeconomic factors such as the effects of urban heat island and exposure to air pollution, lifestyle differences, and divergence in population structure, which may result in differing vulnerability of urban versus rural population to temperature extremes.
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Observed Synergies between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves and Their Controlling Factors in Shanghai, China

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a comprehensive dataset including continuous surface energy flux data to investigate whether the UHI intensity (UHIII) is enhanced or dampened under heat waves (HWs).
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Air pollution and cause-specific mortality: A comparative study of urban and rural areas in China

TL;DR: It is identified that rural residents are more sensitive to air pollution than urban residents in China, and this result challenges previous assumptions about the more adverse effects of urbanization on residents' health in developing countries.
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Burden of cause-specific mortality attributable to heat and cold: A multicity time-series study in Jiangsu Province, China.

TL;DR: Both extreme heat and cold were associated with increased mortality risks from all-cause, CVD, respiratory diseases, nervous diseases, and external causes, and about 64% of this overall temperature-related mortality burden was found in 6 aforementioned specific causes and about 10% of mortality burden in external causes.
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Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package

TL;DR: The metafor package provides functions for conducting meta-analyses in R and includes functions for fitting the meta-analytic fixed- and random-effects models and allows for the inclusion of moderators variables (study-level covariates) in these models.
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Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequences.

TL;DR: This paper developed a systematic conceptual formulation of the problem of measurement error in epidemiologic studies of air pollution and then considered the consequences within this formulation, and presented new simple analyses of data on exposures of particulate matter < 10 microm in aerodynamic diameter from the Particle Total Exposure Assessment Methodology Study.
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New refinements and validation of the MODIS Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity products

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discussed the lessons learned from analysis of the MODIS Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity (LST) products in the current (V4) and previous versions, and presented eight new refinements for V5 product generation executive code (PGE16) and the test results with real Terra and Aqua MODIS data.
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