Toward a Quantitative Estimate of Future Heat Wave Mortality under Global Climate Change

BACKGROUND: Climate change is anticipated to affect human health by changing the distribution of known risk factors. Heat waves have had debilitating effects on human mortality, and global climate models predict an increase in the frequency and severity of heat waves. The extent to which climate cha...

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Autores principales: Peng, Roger D., Bobb, Jennifer F., Tebaldi, Claudia, McDaniel, Larry, Bell, Michelle L., Dominici, Francesca
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21193384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002430

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21193384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002430

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