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 · 28 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Thermoregulation and physiological responses #Thermal Regulation in Medicine

paper · doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.05.021

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