Study on the association between ambient temperature and mortality using spatially resolved exposure data

Environmental Research

Volumn 151, Issue , 2016, Pages 610-617

  Lee, Mihye ^a   Shi, Liuhua ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute effect; Exposure error; Mortality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIGHER EDUCATION; LAND USE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL POPULATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; LAND USE; MALE; MORTALITY; NORTH CAROLINA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTH CAROLINA; URBAN AREA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; COLD; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEORGIA; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

GEORGIA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NORTH CAROLINA; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SOUTH CAROLINA; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84985898469     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.08.029     Document Type: Article

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