Urbanization Level and Vulnerability to Heat-Related Mortality in Jiangsu Province, China
Author(s) -
Kai Chen,
Lian Zhou,
Xiaohong Chen,
Zongwei Ma,
Yang Liu,
Lei Huang,
Jun Bi,
Patrick L. Kinney
Publication year - 2016
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/ehp204
Subject(s) - urbanization , geography , demography , china , distributed lag , population , vulnerability (computing) , environmental health , megacity , mortality rate , urban heat island , medicine , biology , ecology , computer security , archaeology , machine learning , sociology , meteorology , computer science
Although adverse effects of high temperature on mortality have been studied extensively in urban areas, little is known of the heat-mortality associations outside of cities.
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