Modeling extreme heat-induced neonatal mortality and inequities in relative vulnerabilities in Ghana: distributed lag panel analysis with counterfactual risk estimation; 2008-2025

Background

Climate change increasingly threatens maternal, neonatal, and child health, yet evidence on the effect of temperature extremes on neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa remains limited. This study quantified the association between maximum temperature and neonatal mortality and identified high-burden communities across 261 administrative districts in Ghana.