Diurnal Temperature Range and Daily Emergency Room Admissions among the Elderly in Beijing, China

Key words: 
• Emergency Room /
• human health /
• surface temperature /
• optimum temperature /
• climatic change /
• climate change

Abstract: 

In recent years,more attentions have been paid to the association between climate change and human health.Increasing and more variable global surface temperature is one of the key climatic change factors which have been consistently reported about the effect on human health.So far,more researches have revealed that temperature lead not only to direct deaths and illnesses but also to aggravation of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases[1-3].Typically,the relationship between temperature and mortality or morbidity is V-,U-,or J-shaped,with optimum temperature corresponding to the lowest point in the temperature mortality curve[3-4].