Heat wave 2003 and mortality in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 135, Issue 13-14, 2005, Pages 200-205

  Grize, Leticia ^a   Huss, Anke ^a,b   Thommen, Oliver ^a   Schindler, Christian ^a   Braun Fahrländer, Charlotte ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Heat wave; Mortality; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT WAVE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA;

EID: 18244371066     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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