The potential impacts of climate variability and change on health impacts of extreme weather events in the United States

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages 191-198

  Greenough, Gregg ^a   McGeehin, Michael ^b   Bernard, Susan M ^a   Trtanj, Juli ^c   Riad, Jasmin ^d   Engelberg, David ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme weather events; Flooding; Global warming; Natural disasters; Storms

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INJURY; POLICY; POPULATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL WELFARE; TIME; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

EID: 0035001593     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3435009     Document Type: Article

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