Volume 35 - Article 33 | Pages 991–1010
On the association between weather variability and total and cause-specific mortality before and during industrialization in Sweden
By Daniel Oudin Åström, Sören Edvinsson, David Hondula, Joacim Rocklöv, Barbara Schumann
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