Heat-related fatalities in wisconsin during the summer of 2012

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 219-223

  Christenson, Megan L ^a   Geiger, Sarah Dee ^a   Anderson, Henry A ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEAT INJURY; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; OBSESSIVE HOARDING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84886019641     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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