Mortality in Chicago attributed to the July 1995 heat wave

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1515-1518

  Whitman, Steven ^a   Good, Glenn ^a   Donoghue, Edmund R ^b   Benbow, Nanette ^a   Shou, Wenyuan ^a   Mou, Shanxuan ^a  

^a CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030829999     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.9.1515     Document Type: Article

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