Heat-related mortality in India: Excess all-cause mortality associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad heat wave

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Azhar, Gulrez Shah ^a,b   Mavalankar, Dileep ^a,b   Nori Sarma, Amruta ^a,c   Rajiva, Ajit ^a   Dutta, Priya ^a   Jaiswal, Anjali ^d   Sheffield, Perry ^e   Knowlton, Kim ^c,d   Hess, Jeremy J ^f,g  

^a Indian Institute of Public Health   (India)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c Columbia Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d Natural Resources Defense Council   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT STRESS; HEAT WAVE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; THERMAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; MALE; MORTALITY; SEASON;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MORTALITY; SEASONS;

EID: 84898444058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091831     Document Type: Article

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