The short-term association of temperature and rainfall with mortality in vadu health and demographic surveillance system: A population level time series analysis

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages 44-52

  Ingole, Vijendra ^a,b,c   Juvekar, Sanjay ^a,c   Muralidharan, Veena ^a   Sambhudas, Somnath ^a,c   Rocklöv, Joacim ^b  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate change; Climate extreme; Death; Extreme weather; HDSS; India; Mortality; Precipitation; Rainfall; Temperature; Time series; Weather

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RAIN; SEX FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877114176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.19118     Document Type: Article

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