Warmer is healthier: Effects on mortality rates of changes in average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and temperatures in 100 U.S. cities

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 336-346

  Cox, Louis A ^a   Popken, Douglas A ^a   Ricci, Paolo F ^a  

^a Cox Associates LLC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution health effects; Causal modeling; Fine particulate matter; Granger test; Panel data analysis; PM2.5; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CITIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879453866     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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