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Risk Factors, Health Effects and Behaviour in Older People during Extreme Heat: A Survey in South Australia
Older people had a high incidence of hospitalisation during the 2009 heat wave in South Australia. We sought to explore resilience, behaviours, health risk factors and health outcomes during recent heat waves for a representative sample of independently living residents. A telephone survey of 499 pe...
Autores principales: | Nitschke, Monika, Hansen, Alana, Bi, Peng, Pisaniello, Dino, Newbury, Jonathan, Kitson, Alison, Tucker, Graeme, Avery, Jodie, Dal Grande, Eleonora |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24300073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10126721 |
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