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1. Heat fatalities in Pima county, Arizona

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Michael A. Kent, Mary Z. Mays, Samuel M. Keim, Robin M. Harris, Bruce O. Parks, and Erik Pytlak

Subjects
Adult, Male, Hot Temperature, Health (social science), Heat Stroke, Geography, Planning and Development, Logistic regression, Body Temperature, Odds Ratio, medicine, Humans, Proportional Hazards Models, Incidence, Incidence (epidemiology), Medical examiner, Arizona, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Heatstroke, Environmental Exposure, Environmental exposure, Odds ratio, Emigration and Immigration, Heat wave, National weather service, medicine.disease, Logistic Models, Geography, Female, Desert Climate, Demography
Abstract

The most common cause of heat fatalities is environmental exposure during heat waves. Deserts of the southwestern USA are known for temperatures that exceed 32 degrees C for 30 days or more; yet, heat-related fatalities are rare among residents of the region. We compiled data from the National Weather Service and the Office of the Medical Examiner in order to determine the relationship between temperature and occurrence of heat fatalities in Pima County, AZ. Logistic regression indicated that for each degree of increase in temperature (degrees C), there was a 35% increase in the odds of a heat fatality occurring (p

Published
2007
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2. Estimating the incidence of heat-related deaths among immigrants in Pima County, Arizona

Author

Mary Z. Mays, Bruce O. Parks, Robin M. Harris, Erik Pytlak, Michael A. Kent, and Samuel M. Keim

Subjects
Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, media_common.quotation_subject, Heat Stroke, Immigration, Population, Poison control, Occupational safety and health, Environmental health, Injury prevention, medicine, Humans, Mortality, education, media_common, Retrospective Studies, Transients and Migrants, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Public health, Medical examiner, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Arizona, Middle Aged, Female, business
Abstract

Widespread media reports have described an increase in heat-related deaths among illegal immigrant border crossers in Southern Arizona in recent years. We conducted a retrospective case series review of heat-related deaths reported by a large border county medical examiner office in an attempt to estimate the occurrence and distribution of these deaths for the years 1998–2003. United States Border Patrol apprehension data were also collected and used in the analysis to estimate the size of the population of border crossers. An increase in the total heat-related deaths has occurred since 1999 in Pima County Arizona and has continued to date. Precise estimates of rates are not possible but appear to have increased as well. Implications for understanding the complexity of researching this public health issue including the definition of cases and population at risk are discussed.

Published
2006

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