Associations between Ambient Outdoor Temperature and Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality in Scotland

Ramsay, Colin and Robertson, C. and Carragher, Ray and Corson, Stephen (2018) Associations between Ambient Outdoor Temperature and Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality in Scotland. National Centre for Resilience, Edinburgh.

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Abstract

This report investigates the association between ambient air temperature and health impacts, measured as morbidity (hospital admissions) and mortality, in Scotland to determine what evidence there is to reject the (null) hypothesis that there is no relationship.