Differences on the effect of heat waves on mortality by sociodemographic and urban landscape characteristics

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 519-525

  Xu, Yihan ^a,b   Dadvand, Payam ^a,c   Barrera Gómez, Jose ^a,c   Sartini, Claudio ^d   Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc ^c,e   Borrell, Carme ^b,c,e   Medina Ramón, Mercè ^a,c   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c,f   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; HEALTH RISK; HEAT TRANSFER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MORTALITY; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; INEQUALITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIO-ECONOMIC; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC; TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881241430     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201899     Document Type: Article

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