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Indoor Temperatures in Patient Waiting Rooms in Eight Rural Primary Health Care Centers in Northern South Africa and the Related Potential Risks to Human Health and Wellbeing
Increased temperatures affect human health and vulnerable groups including infants, children, the elderly and people with pre-existing diseases. In the southern African region climate models predict increases in ambient temperature twice that of the global average temperature increase. Poor ventilat...
Autores principales: | Wright, Caradee Y., Street, Renée A., Cele, Nokulunga, Kunene, Zamantimande, Balakrishna, Yusentha, Albers, Patricia N., Mathee, Angela |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28067816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14010043 |
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