A case-only study of vulnerability to heat wave–related mortality in New York City (2000–2011)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 672-678

  Madrigano, Jaime ^a   Ito, Kazuhiko ^b   Johnson, Sarah ^b   Kinney, Patrick L ^c   Matte, Thomas ^b  

^a RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW YORK CITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84936148898     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408178     Document Type: Article

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