Assessment of temperature on mortality burden and economic impacts in a basin-located mega-city

Dan Kuang; Wen Qian; Jingwen Sun; Jingqiu Yao; Xufang Gao; Nan Du; Jiaqi Huang; Wei Huang; Cheng Wang; Rong Lu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0355835

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Assessment of temperature on mortality burden and economic impacts in a basin-located mega-city

Dan Kuang,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0208-0812

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Wen Qian ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Qian

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Jingwen Sun,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Jingqiu Yao,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Xufang Gao,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Nan Du,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Jiaqi Huang,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Wei Huang,

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Cheng Wang ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: deerong@126.com (RL); 421093@qq.com (CW)

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Rong Lu

Roles Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: deerong@126.com (RL); 421093@qq.com (CW)

Affiliation Department of Environmental and School Health, Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2977-9993

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Assessment of temperature on mortality burden and economic impacts in a basin-located mega-city

Dan Kuang,
Wen Qian,
Jingwen Sun,
Jingqiu Yao,
Xufang Gao,
Nan Du,
Jiaqi Huang,
Wei Huang,
Cheng Wang,
Rong Lu

Published: August 12, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0355835

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