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Climate Change and Thermal Stress

Donaldson, G., R. S. Kovats, W. R. Keatinge, A. J. McMichael. 2001. "Heat- and cold-related mortality and morbidity and climate change," in: Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/

Guest, C.S., K. Willson, A.J. Woodward, et al. 1999. "Climate and mortality in Australia: retrospective study, 1979-1990, and synoptic predictions of the health impacts of climate change in 2030," Climate Research, Vol. 13, pp. 1-15. [ABSTRACT]

Martens, W. J. M. 1998. "Climate change, thermal stress and mortality changes," Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 331-344. [ABSTRACT]

Kalkstein, Laurence S., and J. Scott Greene. 1997. "An Evaluation of Climate/Mortality Relationships in Large U.S. Cities and the Possible Impacts of a Climate Change," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 84-93. [ABSTRACT]

Langford I.H., and G. Bentham. 1995. "The potential effects of climate change on winter mortality in England and Wales," International Journal of Biometeorology, Vol. 38, pp. 141-147. [ABSTRACT]

Kalkstein, Laurence S. 1993. "Direct impacts in cities," The Lancet, Vol. 342, No. 8884, December 4, pp. 1397-1399.

 

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