Heat-related mortality risk model for climate change impact projection

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-63

  Honda, Yasushi ^a   Kondo, Masahide ^a   McGregor, Glenn ^b   Kim, Ho ^c   Guo, Yue Leon ^d,e   Hijioka, Yasuaki ^f   Yoshikawa, Minoru ^g   Oka, Kazutaka ^g   Takano, Saneyuki ^g   Hales, Simon ^h   Kovats, R Sari ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^g MIZUHO INFORMATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Excess deaths; Heat related mortality; Projection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRANCE; HEAT; HUMAN; ITALY; JAPAN; KOREA; MORTALITY; SPAIN; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893745840     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-013-0354-6     Document Type: Article

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