Heat-Related Mortality

Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-103

  Kovats, S ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimatization (acclimation); Adaptation; Air conditioning; Climate change; Climate variability; Epidemiology; Episode analysis; Heat health warning systems; Heat stress; Heat wave; Heat related morbidity; Heat related mortality; Heatstroke; Overheating; Spacing cooling; Temperature related mortality

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING SYSTEMS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; SPACE HEATING;

ACCLIMATIZATION (ACCLIMATION); ADAPTATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EPISODE ANALYSIS; HEAT HEALTH WARNING SYSTEMS; HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; HEAT STRESS; HEAT WAVES; HEATSTROKE; OVERHEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84902220617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00115-5     Document Type: Chapter

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