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The 2006 California Heat Wave: Impacts on Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

BACKGROUND: Climate models project that heat waves will increase in frequency and severity. Despite many studies of mortality from heat waves, few studies have examined morbidity. OBJECTIVES: In this study we investigated whether any age or race/ethnicity groups experienced increased hospitalization...

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Autores principales: Knowlton, Kim, Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam, King, Galatea, Margolis, Helene G., Smith, Daniel, Solomon, Gina, Trent, Roger, English, Paul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19165388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.11594