Changes in population susceptibility to heat and cold over time: Assessing adaptation to climate change

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 15, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Arbuthnott, Katherine ^a,b   Hajat, Shakoor ^a   Heaviside, Clare ^a,b   Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^a,b  

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

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Cold; Health; Heat; Heatwave; Mortality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXTREME EVENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT WAVE; MORTALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD SENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; WINTER; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COLD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAT; URBAN HEALTH;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84995611057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-016-0102-7     Document Type: Article

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