Sensitivity to heat: A comparative study of Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois (2003-2006)
Research on how heat impacts human health has increased as climate change threatens to raise temperatures to new extremes. Excessive heat exposure increases death rates, as well as rates of nonfatal, adverse health outcomes. This study used the negative binomial regression model to examine the relat...
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Main Authors: | CHUANG, Wen-Ching, GOBER, Patricia, CHOW, Winston T. L., GOLDEN, Jay |
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Language: | English |
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2013
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3061 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4318/viewcontent/Sensitivity_to_heat_A_comparative_study.pdf |
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