Technical Documentation on Exposure-Response Functions for Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health. 05/2017 The purpose of this 56-page report is to provide resources to public health practitioners and agencies interested in applying the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework, including examples of relevant health, weather, and climate data that can be used in health effects studies. It also provides resources on study designs commonly used to assess the relationships between climate hazards and health effects, and provides case studies for quantifying the future disease burden due to climate change. (PDF)
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