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Citation

Madrigano J, McCormick S, Kinney PL. Am. J. Public Health 2015; 105(11): 2212-2213.

Affiliation

At the time of writing, Jaime Madrigano was with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway. Sabrina McCormick was with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Patrick L. Kinney was with the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2015.302848

PMID

26378860

Abstract

In light of increasing recent media attention on climate change and global warming, heat-related mortality has become a much more visible public health concern. In the United States, heat is responsible for more fatal events than all other weather events combined.(1) Investigating and quantifying heat-related mortality has been done through two very different approaches. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print September 17, 2015: e1-e2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302848).


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