This is a code example for the implementation presented in the paper Projecting the overall heat-related health burden and associated economic costs in a climate change context in Quebec, Canada published in Science of the Total Environment in 2025.
- By Jérémie Boudreault, Céline Campagna, Éric Lavigne and Fateh Chebana.
Scripts are located in the scripts/ folder :
1_climate_data.R: Climate models ensemble data (EPSO-G6-R2) under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5.2_pop_data.R: Population projection data under SSP2 and SSP5.3_projected_an.R: Projected AN to heat based on climate and population data.4_projected_hw.R: Computation of projected heatwaves and affected population.5_simulated_costs.R: Monte Carlo simulation of heat-realted health costs.6_projected_costs.R: Computation of projected heat-related health costs.
Helper functions are located in the scripts/funs/ folder.
Enjoy !