High ambient temperature and mortality in California: Exploring the roles of age, disease, and mortality displacement

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1286-1292

  Basu, Rupa ^a   Malig, Brian ^a  

^a California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; California; Mortality; Mortality displacement; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80755133680     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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