Temperature-mortality relationship in four subtropical Chinese cities: A time-series study using a distributed lag non-linear model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 449, Issue , 2013, Pages 355-362

  Wu, Wei ^a,b   Xiao, Yize ^c   Li, Guangchun ^d   Zeng, Weilin ^a   Lin, Hualiang ^a,b   Rutherford, Shannon ^e   Xu, Yanjun ^b   Luo, Yuan ^a,b   Xu, Xiaojun ^b   Chu, Cordia ^e   Ma, Wenjun ^a,b  

^a Guangdong Institute of Public Health   (China)

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

^c YUNNAN PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d Hunan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Lag effects; Mortality; Subtropical city; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CHINESE CITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUBIC SPLINE; GUANGZHOU; HEALTH EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAG EFFECTS; LOW THRESHOLDS; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NON-LINEAR MODEL; RELATIVE RISKS; SUBTROPICAL CITY; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; U-SHAPED;

COLD EFFECTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; TROPICS;

TEMPERATURE;

DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY;

CHANGSHA; CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; HUNAN; KUNMING; YUNNAN;

EID: 84874412837     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.090     Document Type: Article

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