Urbanization level and vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Jiangsu Province, China

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1863-1869

  Chen, Kai ^a,b   Zhou, Lian ^c   Chen, Xiaodong ^c   Ma, Zongwei ^a   Liu, Yang ^d   Huang, Lei ^a   Bi, Jun ^a   Kinney, Patrick L ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIORESPIRATORY MORTALITY; CHINA; DEATH; EDUCATION; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; URBANIZATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85003041395     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP204     Document Type: Article

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