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Assessing a population's exposure to heat and humidity: an empirical approach

BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that assessing the impact of heat on populations is an important aspect of climate change research. However, this raises questions about how best to measure people's exposure to heat under everyday living conditions in more detail than is possible by relying on...

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Autores principales:	Byass, Peter, Twine, Wayne, Collinson, Mark, Tollman, Stephen, Kjellstrom, Tord
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	CoAction Publishing 2010
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943329/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20859462 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v3i0.5421

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