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Projecting heat-related mortality impacts under a changing climate in the New York City regionKim Knowlton
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 97:2028-34. 2007..We sought to project future impacts of climate change on summer heat-related premature deaths in the New York City metropolitan region...
The 2006 California heat wave: impacts on hospitalizations and emergency department visitsKim Knowlton
Health and Environment Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York 10011 4231, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:61-7. 2009..Climate models project that heat waves will increase in frequency and severity. Despite many studies of mortality from heat waves, few studies have examined morbidity...
Six climate change-related events in the United States accounted for about $14 billion in lost lives and health costsKim Knowlton
Health and Environment Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:2167-76. 2011..Our analysis provides scientists and policy makers with a methodology to use in estimating future health costs related to climate change and highlights the growing need for public health preparedness...
Links between the built environment, climate and population health: interdisciplinary environmental change research in New York CityJoyce Klein Rosenthal
Urban Planning Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, USA
Ann Acad Med Singapore 36:834-46. 2007....
Assessing ozone-related health impacts under a changing climateKim Knowlton
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:1557-63. 2004..This modeling framework provides a potentially useful new tool for assessing the health risks of climate change...
Modeling of regional climate change effects on ground-level ozone and childhood asthmaPerry E Sheffield
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:251-7; quiz A3. 2011..The adverse respiratory effects of ground-level ozone are well established. Ozone is the air pollutant most consistently projected to increase under future climate change...
