The effect of temperature on cardiovascular disease hospital admissions among elderly people in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Giang, Pham Ngan ^a   Van Dung, Do ^b   Giang, Kim Bao ^c   Van Vinh, Hac ^d   Rocklöv, Joacim ^e  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

^c HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d University of Medicine and Pharmacy   (Viet Nam)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Distributed lag non linear model; Hospital admission; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; UTILIZATION; VIET NAM; WEATHER;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERATURE; VIETNAM; WEATHER;

EID: 84940403796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23649     Document Type: Article

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