Exposure of older people to heatwaves in Europe (1980-2021), Apr 2023

This metadata refer to the dataset presenting the annual change in heatwave exposure of people over 65, expressed as the deviation in annual person-days of heatwave exposure relative to the 1986-2005 baseline.



Heat exposure poses acute health risks, particularly to older people (ie, people older than 65 years), people with underlying, chronic respiratory, kidney, or heart disease, people living in urban areas, and people with little means to access cooling mechanisms. These heat-related health risks are of particular relevance to Europe, as the continent is experiencing ageing populations, urbanisation, and a high prevalence of chronic diseases.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-02-01
Date (Publication)
2023-03-01
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_exposure-to-heatwaves_p_1980-2021_v01_r00

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
100 km
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
1980-01-01 2021-12-31

Extent

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
GEMET

  • heat wave

  • human health

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Portugal

  • Belgium

  • Spain

  • Romania

  • Austria

  • Montenegro

  • Latvia

  • Slovenia

  • Switzerland

  • Netherlands

  • Ireland

  • Denmark

  • Malta

  • Albania

  • Poland

  • Finland

  • Germany

  • France

  • Czechia

  • Slovakia

  • Italy

  • Cyprus

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Iceland

  • Hungary

  • Sweden

  • Bulgaria

  • Greece

  • Türkiye

  • Estonia

  • Croatia

  • Lithuania

  • Norway

  • Serbia

  • North Macedonia

  • Luxembourg

Spatial scope

  • European

EEA Management Plan

  • 2023 2.3.6

EEA topics

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Access to and use of data must follow the conditions as stated under the "Creative Commons Attribution IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)" ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/); The source must be acknowledge as "Copyright © 2022 World Health Organization. Published by Elsevier Ltd."

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

GDB and GPKG files

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

Population vulnerability to extreme heat in Europe

OnLine resource

https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/EUROGEO/Exposure_older_people_heatwaves/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

Map viewer

OnLine resource

The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future

OnLine resource

https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/EUROGEO/Exposure_older_people_heatwaves/MapServer

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

A heat vulnerability index was computed by combining the proportion of the population who are older than 65 years, live in urban areas, and have a chronic disease (cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, and kidney disease). Vulnerability to heat exposure has increased steadily across all European regions, with an increase of 6% from 1990 to 2019. Although northern Europe is the most vulnerable region, the highest relative increase of 9·8% is observed in central Europe



Source: van Daalen, K. et al., 2022, The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future. The Lancet Public Health 7(11) E942-E965. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00197-9 (Indicator 1.1.1: vulnerability to heat exposure)

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
99f8c21a-e9e2-42da-b84c-bf4b569d57ca

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/99f8c21a-e9e2-42da-b84c-bf4b569d57ca

Date info (Creation)
2023-04-12T08:29:27.292Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:05:31.109669Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2023 2.3.6
EEA topics

Climate Climate adaptation
GEMET

heat wave human health
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Human health and safety
Spatial scope

European


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