Issues in health risk assessment of current and future heat extremes

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Honda, Yasushi ^a   Ono, Masaji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b International Research Initiatives for Environmental Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Excess mortality; Generalised additive models; Heat extremes; Japan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955442232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2043     Document Type: Article

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