Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales

Rebecca Cole; Kai Wan; Peninah Murage; Helen L. Macintyre; Shakoor Hajat; Clare Heaviside

doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000553

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Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales

Rebecca Cole ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rebecca.cole@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8359-7716

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Kai Wan,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Peninah Murage,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4506-0897

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Helen L. Macintyre,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Climate and Health Security, United Kingdom Health Security Agency, Chilton, United Kingdom, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Shakoor Hajat,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Clare Heaviside

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales

Rebecca Cole,
Kai Wan,
Peninah Murage,
Helen L. Macintyre,
Shakoor Hajat,
Clare Heaviside

Published: July 10, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000553

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