Temperature variability and mortality: A multi-country study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1554-1559

  Guo, Yuming ^a   Gasparrini, Antonio ^b   Armstrong, Ben G ^b   Tawatsupa, Benjawan ^c   Tobias, Aurelio ^d   Lavigne, Eric ^e   Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, Micheline de Sousa ^f   Pan, Xiaochuan ^g   Kim, Ho ^h   Hashizume, Masahiro ⁱ   Honda, Yasushi ^j   Guo, Yue Leon ^k   Wu, Chang Fu ^k   Zanobetti, Antonella ^l   Schwartz, Joel D ^l   Bell, Michelle L ^m   Overcenco, Ala ⁿ   Punnasiri, Kornwipa ^c   Li, Shanshan ^a   Tian, Linwei ^o   Saldiva, Paulo ^f   Williams, Gail ^a   Tong, Shilu ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Public Heath   (Thailand)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^h Seoul National University   (South Korea)

ⁱ NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^k NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^m Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

ⁿ School of Public Health Management   (Moldova)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^p QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84989291019     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP149     Document Type: Article

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