Edgar Castro

Introduction For decades the deadly impact of heat waves on public health has been documented.1,2 One of the most notable heat waves was the Chicago heat wave of 1995, which caused more than 700 excess deaths, and brought widespread attention to heat waves as a major public health threat.3 Subsequently, numerous population studies have reported associations between heat waves and mortality at the city, national, and multinational levels.4–6 As climate change is projected to increase the...