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Projecting excess emergency department visits and associated costs in Brisbane, Australia, under population growth and climate change scenarios
The direct and indirect health effects of increasingly warmer temperatures are likely to further burden the already overcrowded hospital emergency departments (EDs). Using current trends and estimates in conjunction with future population growth and climate change scenarios, we show that the increas...
Autores principales: | Toloo, Ghasem (Sam), Hu, Wenbiao, FitzGerald, Gerry, Aitken, Peter, Tong, Shilu |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12860 |
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