Short-term effects of the 2008 cold spell on mortality in three subtropical cities in Guangdong province, China

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-216

  Xie, Huiyan ^a   Yao, Zhibin ^b   Zhang, Yonghui ^c   Xu, Yanjun ^c   Xu, Xiaojun ^c   Liu, Tao ^a,c   Lin, Hualiang ^a,c   Lao, Xiangqian ^d   Rutherford, Shannon ^e   Chu, Cordia ^e   Huang, Cunrui ^a,f   Baum, Scott ^e   Ma, Wenjun ^c  

^a Guangdong Institute of Public Health   (China)

^b Guangdong Provincial Department of Health   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cold spell; Mortality; Subtropical cities; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHILD; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD EXPOSURE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 84873343794     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104541     Document Type: Note

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