Climate and health: Mortality attributable to heat and cold

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9991, 2015, Pages 320-322

  Dear, Keith ^a   Wang, Zhan ^a  

^a DUKE KUNSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COLD TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY;

EID: 84937974950     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60897-2     Document Type: Note

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