Building Resilience to Climate Change: Pilot Evaluation of the Impact of India’s First Heat Action Plan on All-Cause Mortality

Table 2

Counts of post-HAP days in each warning category and expected and observed mortality post-HAP and avoided mortality with 95% confidence intervals.

Variable	Any warning	Yellow warming	Orange warning	Red warning
Days Post-HAP	98	36	41	21
Expected deaths after HAP (95% CI)	16,012 (13,956–18,067)	5015 (4868–5162)	6307 (6114–6500)	4690 (2974–6406)
Observed deaths after HAP	13,632	4608	5634	3390
Avoided mortality after HAP (95% CI)	2380 (324–4435)	407 (260–554)	673 (480–886)	1300 (-416–3016)
Average annualized avoided mortality after HAP (95% CI)	1190 (162–2218)	203 (130–277)	336 (240–443)	650 (-208–1508)