The effectiveness of heat prevention plans in reducing heat-related mortality across Europe

This repository contains the full reproducible R code pipeline for the study: "The effectiveness of heat prevention plans in reducing heat-related mortality across Europe." Urban, A. et al. (2025) The effectiveness of heat prevention plans in reducing heat-related mortality across Europe. Environ. Res. Lett. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2775 The analysis is structured in four main scripts, each corresponding to a major stage of the research workflow. For more information, read the README file and follow the github repository at: https://github.com/urbanales/MCC-HEWS.git Data availability statement Anonymised mortality data used in this study were collected by collaborators within the MCC Network under a data-sharing agreement (http://mccstudy.lshtm.ac.uk/) and cannot be made publicly available. The exposure–response curve coefficients from the Stage 1 analysis, along with the complete R code for replicating the subsequent analyses, will be made available in the GitHub (https://github.com/urbanales/MCC-HEWS) and Zenodo repositories within one month of manuscript acceptance. Researchers interested in accessing the raw mortality data for the included cities may contact the corresponding author (Aleš Urban, [email protected]) or the MCC Network coordinators. Funding: The collection of HPP data and the expert elicitation workshop were supported by COST Action ‘PROCLIAS’ (Grant ID: 19139). AU and JK were supported by the Czech Science Foundation (Grant ID: 22-24920S). AU received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe project ‘CROSSEU’ (Grant ID: 101081377) and the Czech Ministry of Education Youth and Sport‘s programme ERC CZ (ID: LL2410). VH was supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.: 101032087). AMVC acknowledges funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant ID: TMSGI3_211626). WT received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Framework research and innovation programme (Grant ID: 101076909; ‘LACRIMA’ project). AG acknowledges funding from Medical Research Council-UK (Grant ID: MR/V034162/1) and European Union’s Horizon 2020 Project ‘Exhaustion’ (Grant ID: 820655).