Multiple trigger points for quantifying heat-health impacts: New evidence from a hot climate

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 176-183

  Petitti, Diana B ^a,b   Hondula, David M ^c,d   Yang, Shuo ^d   Harlan, Sharon L ^d   Chowell, Gerardo ^d,e  

^a Department of Biomedical Informatics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; DEATH; DEHYDRATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ARIZONA; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; VERY ELDERLY; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARIZONA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXTREME HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956599099     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409119     Document Type: Article

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