Is the association between temperature and mortality modified by age, gender and socio-economic status?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3513-3518

  Yu, Weiwei ^a   Vaneckova, Pavla ^a   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^b   Tong, Shilu ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Effect modification; Gender; Mortality; Socio economic status; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MODELS; AGE EFFECTS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; BRISBANE , AUSTRALIA; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; EFFECT MODIFICATION; HARMFUL EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MODIFICATION EFFECT; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; WARM TEMPERATURES;

ECONOMICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENDER; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPERATURE; AGE; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUEENSLAND; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 77953810790     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.058     Document Type: Article

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