Learning to take the heat: Declines in U.S. heat-related mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Konkel, Lindsey ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; NOTE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEAT;

HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84905254123     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A220     Document Type: Note

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