High temperature effects on out-patient visits and hospital admissions in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 5260-5267

  Pudpong, Nareerut ^a   Hajat, Shakoor ^b  

^a Sirindhorn College of Public Health   (Thailand)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital admissions; Hospital visits; Morbidity; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; HOSPITAL VISITS; HOT WEATHER; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LAG EFFECTS; MORBIDITY; MORBIDITY EFFECTS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THAILAND; TIME-SERIES REGRESSION; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; HOSPITALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVELOPING WORLD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THAILAND; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEASONS; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CHIANG MAI [NORTHERN REGION]; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; THAILAND;

EID: 80054757892     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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