Mortality from cold waves in Castile - La Mancha, Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5768-5774

  Montero, J C ^a   Miron I J ^a   Criado Alvarez J J ^b   Linares, C ^c   Diaz J ^d  

^a Castile La Mancha Regional Health and Social Welfare Authority   (Spain)

^b SESCAM   (Spain)

^c CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cold wave; Mortality; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARIMA MODELS; COLD WAVES; COVARIATES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEALTH EFFECTS; HEAT WAVES; IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE; LA MANCHA; LOW TEMPERATURES; MORTALITY; PRESSURE TRENDS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; WINTER MONTHS;

CLIMATOLOGY; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

COLD AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH IMPACT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; PERIODICITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SEASONS; SPAIN; WEATHER;

CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; SPAIN;

EID: 77958084763     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.086     Document Type: Article

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