Mortality on extreme heat days using official thresholds in Spain: a multi-city time series analysis

• Main Authors: Tobias Aurelio (Author), Armstrong Ben (Author), Zuza Ines (Author), Gasparrini Antonio (Author), Linares Cristina (Author), Diaz Julio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The 2003 heat wave had a high impact on mortality in Europe, which made necessary to develop heat health watch warning systems. In Spain this was carried-out by the Ministry of Health in 2004, being based on exceeding of city-specifi...