Trends in emergency transportation due to heat illness under the new normal lifestyle in the COVID-19 era, in Japan and 47 prefectures

Authors

Shinya Uryu

Yuta Tanoue

Shuhei Nomura

Kentaro Matsuura

Koji Makiyama

Takayuki Kawashima

Daisuke Yoneoka

Akifumi Eguchi

Yumi Kawamura

Stuart Gilmour

Haruka Sakamoto

Kazuki Shimizu

Chris Fook Sheng Ng

Masahiro Hashizume

Doi

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144723

Published in Science of The Total Environment, vol. 768, article 144723. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144723

Nationwide and prefecture-level trends in heat illness ambulance transport under COVID-19 “new normal” behavior — the foundation of the ongoing heat risk and mobility project.