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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Publicado en:Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 123; no. 6; pp. 606 - 613
Autores principales: Chuang, Wen-Ching, Gober, Patricia
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Jun2015
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