20 Papers
11 Citations
Shaohua Gu is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & China. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of Shaohua Gu include Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Papers
Cardiovascular mortality risk attributable to ambient temperature in China
Jun Yang,Peng Yin,Maigeng Zhou,Chun-Quan Ou,Yuming Guo,Antonio Gasparrini,Yunning Liu,Yujuan Yue,Shaohua Gu,Shaowei Sang,Guijie Luan,Qinghua Sun,Qiyong Liu +12 more
TL;DR: This study emphasises how cold weather is responsible for most part of the temperature-related CVD death burden, and may have important implications for the development of policies to reduce CVD mortality from extreme temperatures.
The effects of summer temperature and heat waves on heat-related illness in a coastal city of China, 2011-2013.
TL;DR: It is found that maximum temperature, rather than heat index, was a better predictor of heat-related illnesses in summers, and relevant active well-organized public health initiatives should be implemented to reduce the adverse effects of heat extremes on the illnesses.
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Predicting Unprecedented Dengue Outbreak Using Imported Cases and Climatic Factors in Guangzhou, 2014
Shaowei Sang,Shaohua Gu,Peng Bi,Weizhong Yang,Zhicong Yang,Lei Xu,Jun Yang,Xiaobo Liu,Tong Jiang,Haixia Wu,Cordia Chu,Qiyong Liu +11 more
TL;DR: Together with the sole transmission vector Aedes albopictus, imported cases, monthly minimum temperature and monthly accumulative precipitation may be used to develop a low-cost effective early warning system.
Public health co-benefits of greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A systematic review.
Jinghong Gao,Sari Kovats,Sotiris Vardoulakis,Paul Wilkinson,Alistair Woodward,Jing Li,Shaohua Gu,Xiaobo Liu,Haixia Wu,Jun Wang,Xiaoqin Song,Yunkai Zhai,Jie Zhao,Qiyong Liu +13 more
TL;DR: GHG mitigation strategies can bring about substantial and possibly cost-effective public health co-benefits that are highly relevant to policy makers and other stakeholders since they point to the compounding value of taking concerted action against climate change and air pollution.
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Heat-related illness in China, summer of 2013
TL;DR: The elderly and males in the range of 45–64 years old might be the most vulnerable people of heat-related illness in China and some deficiencies of the surveillance system are highlighted.
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