Projections of temperature-attributable premature deaths in 209 U.S. cities using a cluster-based Poisson approach

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Schwartz, Joel D ^a,b   Lee, Mihye ^a,b   Kinney, Patrick L ^c   Yang, Suijia ^c   Mills, David ^d   Sarofim, Marcus C ^e   Jones, Russell ^d   Streeter, Richard ^d   Juliana, Alexis St ^d   Peers, Jennifer ^d   Horton, Radley M ^f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^f NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Temperature attributable premature mortality; United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946119977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-015-0071-2     Document Type: Article

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