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ArticleGeoHealth2025

Heatwaves and Home Births: Understanding the Impact of Extreme Heat on Place of Delivery in India.

Arnab K Dey, Anna Dimitrova, Anita Raj, Tarik Benmarhnia

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Article in GeoHealth, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Arnab K DeyScripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4585-3130
Anna DimitrovaScripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA USA.
Anita RajNewcomb Institute of Tulane University New Orleans LA USA.
Tarik BenmarhniaScripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigate the effect of extreme heat on home births in India, proposing that such extreme weather events may impede access to health facilities for childbirth. Utilizing geocoded data from the 2019-2021 Demographic and Health Survey for India, we identified the place of delivery of 208,368 births as home versus health facility. We incorporated maximum values for gridded wet-bulb globe temperatures (WBGT

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extreme heathealth facilityheat exposurehumid heathumidityIndiainstitutional deliverymaternal healthmaternal healthcare utilizationwet bulb globe temperature

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PMID41278246
PMCPMC12635589

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