Understanding the relationship among urbanisation, climate change and human health: A case study in Xiamen

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 304-310

  Li, Xinhu ^a   Gao, Liling ^a   Dai, Long ^b   Zhang, Guoqin ^a   Zhuang, Xiaosi ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhao, Qianjun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Xiamen Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; communicable disease; meteorology; socio economic development; temporal variation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GASTROENTERITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PUBLIC HEALTH; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; FUJIAN; XIAMEN;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954893226     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2010.493711     Document Type: Article

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