In the EU, Space Heating Accounts for the Majority of Domestic Energy Use (IMAGE)

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In the EU, Space Heating Accounts for the Majority of Domestic Energy Use

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A schematic summary of the results of this study (dotted black lines) and the conceptual structure of the broader literature. Healthy individuals have a wider range of temperatures that are not harmful, and typically do not experience them. Individuals with poor health have a narrower range of experienced temperature, and are more likely to experience harmful thermal conditions, especially when living in poor housing which fails to guard against harmful temperature exposure. This harmful exposure is understood to contribute to the observed seasonal variation in mortality.

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Kennard et al, 2020 (PLOS ONE, CC BY 4.0)

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