Vulnerability to heatwaves and implications for public health interventions – A scoping review
2018/05/31 by Elisabeth Anne-Sophie Mayrhuber, Michel L.A. Dückers, Michel Dückers +10 · 156 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Computer science #Environmental health #Intervention (counseling) #Medicine #Nursing #Outreach #Political science #Psychiatry #Psychological intervention #Psychology #Public health #Thermal Regulation in Medicine #Thermoregulation and physiological responses #Vulnerability (computing)
paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.05.021
published in Environmental Research 166, 42-54 (Elsevier BV)
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