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. 2018 Apr 24;109(3):163–179. doi: 10.23749/mdl.v109i3.6851

Appendix Table 1.

Search strategies employed in PubMed to identify scientific literature focused on the health effects of climate change

1. Search strategy to identify publications focused on hea^related illness, cardiovascular, respiratory and kidney diseases
#1 It identifies hazards/exposures ("air temperature" OR "climate change" OR "climate variability" OR "global warming" OR heat OR "hot temperature" OR "heat wave*")
#2 It identifies the occupational setting ("occupational diseases"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational health"[TW] OR "occupational exposure"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational medicine"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational risk"[TW] OR "occupational hazard"[TW] OR "Industry"[Mesh:noexp] OR "construction industry"[MeSH Terms] OR agriculture[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational group"[TW] OR "work: related" [Al l Fields] OR "air pollutants, occupational"[MeSH Terms] OR "working environment"[TW] OR worker*[TW])
#3 It identifies the outcomes (cardiovascular OR renal OR respiratory OR kidney OR dehydration OR fatigue OR "heat stress" OR syncope OR faint* OR heatstroke OR exhaustion OR mortality OR morbidity)
Overall search strategy #1 AND #2 AND #3 NOT animal*
2. Search strategy used to identify publications focused on traumatic injuries and acute death
#1 It identifies hazards/exposures ("air temperature" OR "climate change" OR "climate variability" OR "global warming" OR heat OR "hot temperature" OR "heat wave*" OR flood* OR landslide* OR storm* OR draught* OR wildfire* OR hurricane*)
#2 It identifies the occupational setting ("occupational diseases"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational health"[TW] OR "occupational exposure"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational medicine"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational risk"[TW] OR "occupational hazard"[TW] OR "Industry"[Mesh:noexp] OR "construction industry"[MeSH Terms] OR agriculture[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational group*" OR "work: related"[All Fields] OR "air pollutants, occupational"[MeSH Terms] OR "working environment"[TW] OR worker*[TW])
#3 It identifies the outcomes (injur* OR "acute death" OR fatalit* OR safety)
Overall search strategy #1 AND #2 AND #3 NOT animal* (Filters activated: English, From 2000/01/01)
3. Search strategy to identify publications focused on the expansion of vector habitats on the increased risk of infectious diseases due to climate change
#1 It identifies hazards/exposures ("air temperature" OR "climate change" OR "climate variability" OR "global warming" OR heat OR "hot temperature" OR "heat wave*")
#2 It identifies the occupational setting ("occupational diseases"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational health"[TW] OR "occupational exposure"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational medicine"[MeSH Terms] OR "occupational risk"[TW] OR "occupational hazard"[TW] OR "construction industry"[MeSH Terms] OR agriculture[MeSH Terms] OR occupational group*[TW] OR "work:related"[All Fields] OR "air pollutants, occupational"[MeSH Terms] OR "working environment"[TW] OR worker*[TW] OR livestock OR aviculture)
#3 It identifies the outcomes ((infect* OR vector* OR zoonos* OR mosquito* OR tick*) AND (distribution OR geographic* OR region* OR emergen*))
Overall search strategy #1 AND #2 AND #3