[Impact of fine particulate matter exposure on non-accidental mortality under different apparent temperature levels].

Objective: To assess the impact of exposure to particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm (PM) on non-accidental mortality under different apparent temperature levels and to further explore the modification effect of apparent temperature.

Methods: This study used time-series design.

Association of cause-specific hospital admissions with high and low temperatures in Thailand: a nationwide time series study.

Background: Non-optimum temperatures are associated with a considerable mortality burden. However, evidence of temperature with all-cause and cause-specific hospital admissions in tropical countries like Thailand is still limited.

Methods: Daily all-cause and cause-specific hospital admissions for outpatient and inpatient visits were collected from 77 provinces in Thailand from January 2013 to August 2019.

Geographical disparities in the impacts of heat on diabetes mortality and the protective role of greenness in Thailand: A nationwide case-crossover analysis.

Diabetes is a major public health problem globally, and heat exposure may be a potential risk factor for death among diabetes. This study examines the association between heat and diabetes mortality in different regions of Thailand and investigates whether heat effects are modified by regional greenness. Daily temperature and daily diabetes deaths data were obtained for 60 provinces of Thailand during 2000-2008.

Effects of ambient air pollution on daily hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in Bangkok, Thailand.

Background: Although health effects of air pollutants are well documented in many countries especially in North America and Western Europe, few studies have been conducted in Thailand where pollution mix, weather conditions, and demographic characteristics are different. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of ambient air pollution on hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in Bangkok, Thailand.

Methods: We obtained daily air pollution concentration (O, NO, SO, PM, and CO) and weather variable monitored in Bangkok from January 2006 to December 2014.

Mortality burden attributable to heatwaves in Thailand: A systematic assessment incorporating evidence-based lag structure.

Background: Available information on the acute and cumulative effects of heatwaves on cause-specific mortality in Thailand is scarce.

Objectives: To quantify the acute and cumulative effects of heatwaves on mortality in Thailand, and assess heatwave-related mortality burden.

Methods: Thirty heatwave definitions were used and categorized into three groups: low intensity heatwaves (HW), middle intensity heatwaves (HW), and high intensity heatwaves (HW).

Quantifying excess deaths related to heatwaves under climate change scenarios: A multicountry time series modelling study.

Background: Heatwaves are a critical public health problem. There will be an increase in the frequency and severity of heatwaves under changing climate. However, evidence about the impacts of climate change on heatwave-related mortality at a global scale is limited.

Heat Wave and Mortality: A Multicountry, Multicommunity Study.

Background: Few studies have examined variation in the associations between heat waves and mortality in an international context.

Objectives: We aimed to systematically examine the impacts of heat waves on mortality with lag effects internationally.

Methods: We collected daily data of temperature and mortality from 400 communities in 18 countries/regions and defined 12 types of heat waves by combining community-specific daily mean temperature ≥90th, 92.

Temperature Variability and Mortality: A Multi-Country Study.

Background: The evidence and method are limited for the associations between mortality and temperature variability (TV) within or between days.

Objectives: We developed a novel method to calculate TV and investigated TV-mortality associations using a large multicountry data set.

Methods: We collected daily data for temperature and mortality from 372 locations in 12 countries/regions (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Moldova, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States).

Global variation in the effects of ambient temperature on mortality: a systematic evaluation.

Background: Studies have examined the effects of temperature on mortality in a single city, country, or region. However, less evidence is available on the variation in the associations between temperature and mortality in multiple countries, analyzed simultaneously.

Methods: We obtained daily data on temperature and mortality in 306 communities from 12 countries/regions (Australia, Brazil, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada).

The association between air pollution and mortality in Thailand.

Bayesian statistical inference with a case-crossover design was used to examine the effects of air pollutants {Particulate matter <10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), sulphur dioxide (SO₂), and ozone (O₃)} on mortality. We found that all air pollutants had significant short-term impacts on non-accidental mortality. An increase of 10 μg/m(3) in PM10, 10 ppb in O₃, 1 ppb in SO₂ were associated with a 0.

Determinants of workplace injury among Thai Cohort Study participants.

Objectives: To explore individual determinants of workplace injury among Thai workers.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of a large national cohort.

Setting: Thailand.

Association between heat stress and occupational injury among Thai workers: findings of the Thai Cohort Study.

Global warming will increase heat stress at home and at work. Few studies have addressed the health consequences in tropical low and middle income settings such as Thailand. We report on the association between heat stress and workplace injury among workers enrolled in the large national Thai Cohort Study in 2005 (N=58,495).

Heat stress, health and well-being: findings from a large national cohort of Thai adults.

Objectives: This study aims to examine the association between self-reported heat stress interference with daily activities (sleeping, work, travel, housework and exercise) and three graded-holistic health and well-being outcomes (energy, emotions and life satisfaction).

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Setting: The setting is tropical and developing countries as Thailand, where high temperature and high humidity are common, particularly during the hottest seasons.

The association between temperature and mortality in tropical middle income Thailand from 1999 to 2008.

We have investigated the association between tropical weather condition and age-sex adjusted death rates (ADR) in Thailand over a 10-year period from 1999 to 2008. Population, mortality, weather and air pollution data were obtained from four national databases. Alternating multivariable fractional polynomial (MFP) regression and stepwise multivariable linear regression analysis were used to sequentially build models of the associations between temperature variable and deaths, adjusted for the effects and interactions of age, sex, weather (6 variables), and air pollution (10 variables).

Association between occupational heat stress and kidney disease among 37,816 workers in the Thai Cohort Study (TCS).

Background: We examined the relationship between self-reported occupational heat stress and incidence of self-reported doctor-diagnosed kidney disease in Thai workers.

Methods: Data were derived from baseline (2005) and follow-up (2009) self-report questionnaires from a large national Thai Cohort Study (TCS). Analysis was restricted to full-time workers (n = 17 402 men and 20 414 women) without known kidney disease at baseline.

The association between overall health, psychological distress, and occupational heat stress among a large national cohort of 40,913 Thai workers.

Background: Occupational heat stress is a well-known problem, particularly in tropical countries, affecting workers, health and well-being. There are very few recent studies that have reported on the effect of heat stress on mental health, or overall health in workers, although socioeconomic development and rapid urbanization in tropical developing countries like Thailand create working conditions in which heat stress is likely.

Objective: This study is aimed at identifying the relationship between self-reported heat stress and psychological distress, and overall health status in Thai workers.

GIS-based analysis of the fate of waste-related pathogens Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia and Escherichia coli in a tropical canal network.

Urban canals play a major socio-economic role in many tropical countries and, particularly, Thailand. One of the overlooked functions that they perform is a significant attenuation of waste-related pathogens posing considerable health risk, as well as pollution attenuation in general. The study dealt with a comparison of three canals receiving: (i) municipal, (ii) mainly industrial and (iii) mainly agricultural wastewater, listed in order of progressively decreasing organic loading.

Infection risk assessment of diarrhea-related pathogens in a tropical canal network.

A quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) of Cryptosporidium, Giardia and diarrhegenic Escherichia coli (DEC) infection was performed using Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the human health risks associated with the use of canal water for recreational purposes, unrestricted and restricted irrigation in a tropical peri-urban area. Three canals receiving municipal, agricultural, and, predominantly, industrial wastewater were investigated. Identification of pathogenic protozoans revealed the major presence of Cryptosporidium hominis and both assemblages A and B of Giardia lamblia.