Asthma and thunderstorms: Description of an epidemic in general practice in Britain using data from a doctors' deputising service in the UK

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-238

  Higham, Jonathan ^a,c   Venables, Katherine ^b   Kopek, Emil ^a   Bajekal, Madhavi ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Academic Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHTNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER;

EID: 0030861722     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.3.233     Document Type: Article

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