Toward a broader definition of heat-related death: comparison of mortality estimates from medical examiners' classification with those from total death differentials during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, Illinois.

@article{Shen1998TowardAB,
  title={Toward a broader definition of heat-related death: comparison of mortality estimates from medical examiners' classification with those from total death differentials during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, Illinois.},
  author={Tiefu Shen and Holly L. Howe and Celan J. Alo and Ronald L Moolenaar},
  journal={The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology},
  year={1998},
  volume={19 2},
  pages={
          113-8
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26004209}
}
Using the broader CCMEO classification of heat-related deaths as a relative indicator to target communities for prevention and relief efforts, but not as an adequate measure of actual heat- related mortality in a high-risk neighborhood, is supported.
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