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- description: ~
  display_name: "Chapter 2: Temperature-Related Death and Illness (in 'The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment')"
  doi: 10.7930/J0MG7MDX
  identifier: temperature-related-death-and-illness
  number: 2
  report_identifier: usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016
  sort_key: 20
  title: Temperature-Related Death and Illness
  type: chapter
  uri: /report/usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016/chapter/temperature-related-death-and-illness
  url: https://health2016.globalchange.gov/temperature-related-death-and-illness