Heat-related morbidity in Brisbane, Australia: Spatial variation and area-level predictors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 831-836

  Hondula, David M ^a,b   Barnett, Adrian G ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; HEAT RELATED MORBIDITY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAT; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; MORBIDITY;

EID: 84905234457     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307496     Document Type: Article

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