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Predicting Hospitalization for Heat-Related Illness at the Census-Tract Level: Accuracy of a Generic Heat Vulnerability Index in Phoenix, Arizona (USA)

BACKGROUND: Vulnerability mapping based on vulnerability indices is a pragmatic approach for highlighting the areas in a city where people are at the greatest risk of harm from heat, but the manner in which vulnerability is conceptualized influences the results. OBJECTIVES: We tested a generic natio...

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Autores principales: Chuang, Wen-Ching, Gober, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: NLM-Export 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25635952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1307868

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