Mortality on extreme heat days using official thresholds in Spain: A multi-city time series analysis

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tobias, Aurelio ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^b   Zuza, Ines ^c   Gasparrini, Antonio ^b   Linares, Cristina ^e   Diaz, Julio ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

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

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEAT; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEATHER;

CITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HEAT STROKE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WEATHER;

EID: 84857025514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-133     Document Type: Article

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