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Title Ambient temperature and health in China / Hualiang Lin, Wenjun Ma, Qiyong Liu, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, [2019]

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Contents Overview of climate change in China.- Ambient temperature and mortality in Chinese population.- Ambient temperature and morbidity in China.- Heat wave and mortality/morbidity in China.- Ambient temperature and major infectious diseases in China.- style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Ambient temperature and reproductive healthoutcomes.- Health vulnerability assessment to climate change in China.- Adapting to climate change in China.- Health co-benefits in relation to greenhouse gas emission reductions in China.- Ambient temperature and diseases burden in China.- Comparison of health impacts between China and other countries.- Perspectives and future research directions
Summary This book focuses on the Chinese health impact induced by ambient temperature variation, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response relationship with the mortality and morbidity from respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health among Chinese population. A great number of epidemiological studies have reported that ambient temperature is closely associated with a wide range of health outcomes, such as mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory events, adverse birth outcome, and some infectious diseases, such as dengue fever, malaria. Although a number of epidemiological studies in western countries have evaluated the adverse health effects of ambient temperature, the exposure-response relationship from these countries cannot simply be applied to the Chinese population due to the large differences in temperature profile, exposure pattern, as well as the population vulnerability. This book will provide up-to-date estimates of the magnitude of adverse health effects of ambient temperature in the Chinese population. We hope to provide readers with a comprehensive and organized body of information in the area of Ambient Temperature and health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019)
Subject Medical climatology.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- China
Climatic changes.
Humans
Climate Change
Air Pollution -- adverse effects
Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects
Health Status Indicators
Hot Temperature -- adverse effects
Population Health
climate change.
Homo sapiens (species)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Medical climatology
Human beings -- Effect of climate on
Social medicine
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Lin, Hualiang, editor
Ma, Wenjun, 1973- editor.
Liu, Qiyong, editor
ISBN 9789811325830
9811325839
9789811325847
9811325847