Quantifying the health impacts of future changes in temperature in California

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1258-1264

  Ostro, Bart ^a,b   Rauch, Stephen ^a   Green, Shelley ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Health; Heat waves; Impacts; Morbidity; Mortality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BASELINE CONDITIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH IMPACT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80755140102     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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