Relative risks (RRs) of daily mortality and EHAs during heatwaves in Brisbane (summer season and whole study period), using time series analysis.

a<p>unadjusted.</p>b<p>adjusted for humidity and O₃.</p>c<p>adjusted for humidity and PM₁₀.</p>d<p>adjusted for humidity and NO₂.</p

Summaries of daily weather, air pollutants and health outcomes in Brisbane, Australia.

a<p>maximum temperature.</p>b<p>emergency hospital admissions.</p>c<p>the number of outcomes.</p

Spearman correlation between climatic variables and air pollutants in Brisbane, Australia.

a<p>Tmax = maximum temperature.</p>*<p><i>P</i><0.05.</p>**<p><i>P</i><0.01.</p

Odds ratios and Relative risks of daily mortality (1A) and emergency hospital admissions (1B) during heatwaves (84 days), using both case crossover and time series analyses.

<p>Odds ratios and Relative risks of daily mortality (1A) and emergency hospital admissions (1B) during heatwaves (84 days), using both case crossover and time series analyses.</p

Relative risks of daily mortality (2A) and emergency hospital admissions (2B) during heatwaves (summer season and whole study period), using time series analyses.

<p>Relative risks of daily mortality (2A) and emergency hospital admissions (2B) during heatwaves (summer season and whole study period), using time series analyses.</p

Odds ratios of emergency hospital admissions and mortality during heatwave periods using the case-crossover, 1996–2005 in Brisbane, Australia.

a<p>Heatwave definition;</p>b<p>Adjusted for relative humidity and O₃;</p>c<p>Adjusted for relative humidity, PM₁₀, NO₂ and O₃;</p>d<p>CI: confidence interval.</p

Scatter plots of the relationship between maximum temperature and mortality (A and C) and emergency hospital admissions (B and D) between 1996 and 2005.

<p>Fitted regression line (and 95% confidence interval) from a non-linear (quadratic) regression. EHAs: Emergency Hospital Admissions.</p

Heatwave definitions (HWDs) and heatwave days during 1996–2005 in Brisbane, Australia.

a<p>The first three definitions were widely used in the literature and the remainder (HWDs 4–10) were extended definitions developed for this study.</p

Forecast of BFV disease setting minimum temperature and rainfall varies.

<p>(a) Geographical distribution of BFV disease under current climatic conditions for Queensland entire coastal regions, (b) forecast of potential probabilities of risk of BFV disease under climate change scenarios for 2025, (c) 2050 and (d) 2100.</p

Odds ratios (ORs) and Relative risks (RRs) of mortality and EHAs during heatwaves in Brisbane (84 days).

a<p>unadjusted.</p>b<p>adjusted for humidity and O₃.</p>c<p>adjusted for humidity and PM₁₀.</p>d<p>adjusted for humidity and NO₂.</p