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- Title
Toward a quantitative estimate of future heat wave mortality under global climate change.
- Authors
Peng, Roger D; Bobb, Jennifer F; Tebaldi, Claudia; McDaniel, Larry; Bell, Michelle L; Dominici, Francesca
- Abstract
Climate change is anticipated to affect human health by changing the distribution of known risk factors. Heat waves have had debilitating effects on human mortality, and global climate models predict an increase in the frequency and severity of heat waves. The extent to which climate change will harm human health through changes in the distribution of heat waves and the sources of uncertainty in estimating these effects have not been studied extensively.
- Publication
Environmental health perspectives, 2011, Vol 119, Issue 5, p701
- ISSN
1552-9924
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.1002430