Searching for the best modeling specification for assessing the effects of temperature and humidity on health: a time series analysis in three European cities

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1585-1596

  Rodopoulou, Sophia ^a   Samoli, Evangelia ^a   Analitis, Antonis ^a   Atkinson, Richard W ^b   de’Donato, Francesca K ^c   Katsouyanni, Klea ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Apparent temperature; Distributed lags; Mortality; Relative humidity; Time series

Indexed keywords

CITY; CLIMATE; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ITALY; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CITIES; CLIMATE; ENGLAND; GREECE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84943814724     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-0965-2     Document Type: Article

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