Should We Adjust for Season in Time-Series Studies of the Short-Term Association Between Temperature and Mortality?

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
• ² Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Centre for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
• ⁶ Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁷ Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
• ⁸ Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
• ⁹ Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
• ¹¹ School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• ¹² Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ¹³ The Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ¹⁴ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK.
• ¹⁵ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁶ Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• ¹⁸ The Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ¹⁹ Department of Global Health Policy, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.