Commentary: Tolstoy's heat waves: Each catastrophic in its own way?

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 365-367

  Anderson, G Brooke ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DEATH; FAMILY; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; HAZE; HEAT; HEAT WAVE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; MALE;

AIR POLLUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY;

EID: 84898009755     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000086     Document Type: Note

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