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Heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity, yet their impacts on hospitalizations for mental and behavioural disorders remain insufficiently quantified across countries. Here we show, using a time-stratified case-crossover analysis of 2,618,307 warm-season hospitalization records from 852 locations in Brazil, Canada, Chile and New Zealand from 2000 to 2019, that sustained extreme heat was associated…