Heat Waves Influence on Health: Some Uncertainties about Their Impact

摘要

The answers to these questions still lack scientific consensus, in view of the fact that there are many studies which use the different variables mentioned above to define what is known as a heat wave from a public health standpoint [3]. Although maximum daily temperature appears to be the most widely used of these, the EUROHEAT project [4] has resulted in the so-called "apparent temperature" being employed in Europe in recent years as a meteorological indicator of the combined effect of temperature and humidity. However, the use of this parameter is not free of controversy for various reasons.