Impacts of extreme heat on emergency medical service calls in King County, Washington, 2007–2012: relative risk and time series analyses of basic and advanced life support

BACKGROUND: Exposure to excessive heat kills more people than any other weather-related phenomenon, aggravates chronic diseases, and causes direct heat illness. Strong associations between extreme heat and health have been identified through increased mortality and hospitalizations and there is grow...

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Published in:Environ Health
Main Authors: Calkins, Miriam M., Isaksen, Tania Busch, Stubbs, Benjamin A., Yost, Michael G., Fenske, Richard A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730772/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26823080
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0109-0
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