Environmental temperature and thermal indices: What is the most effective predictor of heat-related mortality in different geographical contexts?

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Morabito, Marco ^a   Crisci, Alfonso ^b   Messeri, Alessandro ^a   Capecchi, Valerio ^b   Modesti, Pietro Amedeo ^a   Gensini, Gian Franco ^a   Orlandini, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYPOTHESIS; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RADIATION ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84893197188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/961750     Document Type: Article

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