Multiple Trigger Points for Quantifying Heat-Health Impacts: New Evidence from a Hot Climate | Zendy

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Multiple Trigger Points for Quantifying Heat-Health Impacts: New Evidence from a Hot Climate

Author(s) -

Diana B. Petitti,

David M. Hondula,

Shuo Yang,

Sharon L. Harlan,

Gerardo Chowell

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1409119

Subject(s) - confounding , poisson regression , medicine , environmental health , public health , psychological intervention , metric (unit) , environmental science , demography , emergency medicine , population , pathology , business , marketing , psychiatry , sociology

Extreme heat is a public health challenge. The scarcity of directly comparable studies on the association of heat with morbidity and mortality and the inconsistent identification of threshold temperatures for severe impacts hampers the development of comprehensive strategies aimed at reducing adverse heat-health events.

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