A note of caution about the excess winter deaths measure

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 647-

  Hajat, Shakoor ^a   Kovats, Sari ^a  

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

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EID: 84905374925     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2302     Document Type: Letter

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