The impact of temperature on mortality in Tianjin, china: A case-crossover design with a distributed lag nonlinear model

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1719-1725

  Guo, Yuming ^a,b   Barnett, Adrian G ^a,b   Pan, Xiaochuan ^c   Yu, Weiwei ^a,b   Tong, Shilu ^a,b  

^a School of Public Health   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular mortality; Case crossover; Distributed lag nonlinear model; Mortality; Respiratory mortality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; DISTRIBUTED LAG NONLINEAR MODEL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 82755177633     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103598     Document Type: Article

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