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Mortality Associated with Short- and Long-Term Temperature Changes: A Global Evaluation within the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study

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Bigouette, John P.

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The influence of increasing temperatures on human health has been widely established across multiple health disciplines. Short-term temperature changes are associated with an increased risk of hospitalization and death overall and in a variety of health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease. Even as humans can self-regulate heat stresses, the elderly,...

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Dissertation

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; Song et al. 2017; Sun et al. 2018). However, these previous studies have been disproportionally
Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Air Quality on Human Health in At-Risk Populations

Creator:

Evoy, Richard E.

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Climate change is causing people around the world to experience extreme temperature and air pollution events such as wildfires more frequently, and for longer periods of time. Extreme heat events have been widely associated with an increased risk of emergency room visits, occupational heat-related injuries and illnesses, and mortality overall...

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Dissertation
Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Creator:

Buchalter, Robert Blake

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Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...

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Dissertation