Temporal variation in heat–mortality associations: A multicountry study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1200-1207

  Gasparrini, Antonio ^a   Guo, Yuming ^b   Hashizume, Masahiro ^c   Kinney, Patrick L ^d   Petkova, Elisaveta P ^e   Lavigne, Eric ^f   Zanobetti, Antonella ^g   Schwartz, Joel D ^g   Tobias, Aurelio ^h   Leone, Michela ⁱ   Tong, Shilu ^j   Honda, Yasushi ^k   Kim, Ho ^l   Armstrong, Ben G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^j QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^l Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEAT; META ANALYSIS; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942920970     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409070     Document Type: Article

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