The temperature-mortality relationship in China: An analysis from 66 Chinese communities

Environmental Research

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-77

  Ma, Wenjun ^a,c   Wang, Lijun ^b   Lin, Hualiang ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Rutherford, Shannon ^c   Luo, Yuan ^a   Zeng, Weilin ^a   Zhang, Yewu ^d   Wang, Xiaofeng ^d   Gu, Xin ^d   Chu, Cordia ^c   Xiao, Jianpeng ^a   Zhou, Maigeng ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed lag non linear model; Extreme temperature; Mortality; Multivariate meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHINA; COLD; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HEAT; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RISK; SEASON;

CHINA; COLD TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; SEASONS;

EID: 84914133452     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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