Mapping Human Vulnerability to Extreme Heat: A Critical Assessment of Heat Vulnerability Indices Created Using Principal Components Analysis

BACKGROUND: Extreme heat poses current and future risks to human health. Heat vulnerability indices (HVIs), commonly developed using principal components analysis (PCA), are mapped to identify populations vulnerable to extreme heat. Few studies critically assess implications of analytic choices made...

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Autores principales: Conlon, Kathryn C., Mallen, Evan, Gronlund, Carina J., Berrocal, Veronica J., Larsen, Larissa, O’Neill, Marie S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Environmental Health Perspectives 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP4030

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP4030

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