Impact of heatwave on mortality under different heatwave definitions: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Environment International

Volumn 89-90, Issue , 2016, Pages 193-203

  Xu, Zhiwei ^a   FitzGerald, Gerard ^a   Guo, Yuming ^b   Jalaludin, Bin ^c,d   Tong, Shilu ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SOUTH WESTERN SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Definition; Heatwave; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECIFIC HEAT;

DEFINITION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; HEALTH CONCERNS; HEATWAVE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; META-ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA BASE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH STATUS; HEATWAVE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENCEDIRECT; SCOPUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; WELLBEING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEAT; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

SCOPUS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXTREME HEAT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK;

EID: 84957811441     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.02.007     Document Type: Review

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