It’s difficult to understand how they did their estimates or what it all means. Looking at Figure 2, it seems to be good news? There is a downward trend in the “age adjusted” rate of this kind of...
It’s difficult to understand how they did their estimates or what it all means. Looking at Figure 2, it seems to be good news? There is a downward trend in the “age adjusted” rate of this kind of death just about everywhere from 1989 to 2019. And yet in the abstract, they say there is a dramatic rise in the “burden.” This seems to be due to the aging of populations everywhere - that is, people are living longer, so there are more people who have strokes. Also good news in its way, but it requires more resources to go into healthcare. And due to climate change, this is more people who need heating or air conditioning.
globally there is a decrease in heatstroke. however areas with high sociodemographic index (essentially, with the most burdens across multiple variables) are showing an increasing trend, which is...
globally there is a decrease in heatstroke. however areas with high sociodemographic index (essentially, with the most burdens across multiple variables) are showing an increasing trend, which is happening at a more drastic rate than average/low sdi areas. more vulnerable/stressed communities are more impacted by temperature increases caused by climate change. there is a disparity in the amount of burden these communities are experiencing compared to others & increase in negative health outcomes
Long-term trends are pretty good there too: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS Edit: but summary statistics hide a lot, particularly for worldwide numbers. I think this dataset...
Edit: but summary statistics hide a lot, particularly for worldwide numbers. I think this dataset might be more useful for picking a country you care about and seeing what the trends are there? That’s still pretty zoomed-out, but not quite all the way.
It’s difficult to understand how they did their estimates or what it all means. Looking at Figure 2, it seems to be good news? There is a downward trend in the “age adjusted” rate of this kind of death just about everywhere from 1989 to 2019. And yet in the abstract, they say there is a dramatic rise in the “burden.” This seems to be due to the aging of populations everywhere - that is, people are living longer, so there are more people who have strokes. Also good news in its way, but it requires more resources to go into healthcare. And due to climate change, this is more people who need heating or air conditioning.
globally there is a decrease in heatstroke. however areas with high sociodemographic index (essentially, with the most burdens across multiple variables) are showing an increasing trend, which is happening at a more drastic rate than average/low sdi areas. more vulnerable/stressed communities are more impacted by temperature increases caused by climate change. there is a disparity in the amount of burden these communities are experiencing compared to others & increase in negative health outcomes
Good luck to the many people who live without electricity.
Long-term trends are pretty good there too:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS
Edit: but summary statistics hide a lot, particularly for worldwide numbers. I think this dataset might be more useful for picking a country you care about and seeing what the trends are there? That’s still pretty zoomed-out, but not quite all the way.