Temperature-related mortality in 17 large Chinese cities: How heat and cold affect mortality in China

Environmental Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-133

  Ma, Wenjuan ^a,b   Chen, Renjie ^a,b   Kan, Haidong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Mortality; Population health; Temperature; Time series models

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

CHINA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CITIES; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84907326917     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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