Ambient temperature and mortality: An international study in four capital cities of East Asia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 390-396

  Chung, Joo Youn ^a   Honda, Yasushi ^b   Hong, Yun Chul ^c   Pan, Xiao Chuan ^d   Guo, Yue Leon ^e   Kim, Ho ^a  

^a Institute of Health and Environment   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Apparent temperature; Latitude effect; Mortality; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; APPARENT TEMPERATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUBIC SPLINE; EAST ASIA; LATITUDE EFFECTS; LINEAR MODELING; MORTALITY COUNT; MORTALITY THRESHOLD; THRESHOLD MODEL; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; TIME TRENDS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

AMBIENT AIR; CAPITAL CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELING; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH KOREA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CITIES; FAR EAST; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; KOREA; SEOUL [SEOUL (ADS)]; SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA; TAIPEI; TAIWAN; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

EID: 71749087719     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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