Economic estimation and impact of air pollution and temperature extremes on emergency hospital admissions in Spain

2025/02/22 by R. Ruiz-Páez, José Quintanal Díaz, J. Díaz +8 · 2 voices · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Health Professions · #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Global Health Care Issues #Air Quality and Health Impacts

paper · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178867

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• How air pollution and extreme temperatures affect emergency hospital admissions due to various respiratory causes in Spain, by age group: A nationwide study
• How air pollution affects cause-specific emergency hospital admissions on days with biomass combustion in Spain?

Discussions

• La contaminación atmosférica en España se relaciona a corto plazo con 62.000 ingresos hospitalarios urgentes al año con un coste de 860 millones €. La temperatura en olas de frío con 4.100 ingresos/a [bsky, 46 points, 4 comments]
• ➡️ Madrid también lidera el ranking nacional anual de ingresos hospitalarios atribuibles a la contaminación por ozono (más de 3.000 en la región, de los más de 7.000 en toda España) con un coste anual [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]