Mortality effects of heat waves vary by age and area: a multi-area study in China

• Päätekijät: Lingyan Zhang (Tekijä), Zhao Zhang (Tekijä), Tao Ye (Tekijä), Maigeng Zhou (Tekijä), Chenzhi Wang (Tekijä), Peng Yin (Tekijä), Bin Hou (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Many studies have reported an increased mortality risk from heat waves comparing with non-heat wave days. However, how much the mortality rate change with the heat intensity-vulnerability curve-is still unknown. Such unknown information makes the related managers impossible to as...