The interactive effects between high temperature and air pollution on mortality: A time-series analysis in Hefei, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 575, Issue , 2017, Pages 1530-1537

  Woodward, Alistair ^f   Yang, Jun ^c   Gu, Shaohua ^c,d   Liu, Qiyong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d NINGBO MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^e Anhui Provincial Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Hot temperature; Interaction; Mortality; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; CHINA; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERACTION; MORTALITY; NATURAL CUBIC SPLINES; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; AIR POLLUTANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR;

ANHUI; CHINA; HEFEI;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85027926876     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.033     Document Type: Article

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