Seasonality in mortality and its relationship to temperature among the older population in Hanoi, Vietnam

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Xuan, Le Thi Thanh ^a   Egondi, Thaddaeus ^b,c   Ngoan, Le Tran ^a   Toan, Do Thi Thanh ^a   Huong, Le Thi ^a  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mortality; Older; Temperature; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CLIMATE; COLD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION; VIET NAM;

AGED; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SEASONS; URBAN POPULATION; VIETNAM;

EID: 84940421611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23115     Document Type: Article

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