Assessment of heat- and cold-related emergency department visits in cities of China and Australia: Population vulnerability and attributable burden.

CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to heat and cold had adverse but divergent impacts on EDV in China and Australia. Further mitigation policy efforts incorporating region-specific population vulnerability to temperature impacts are necessary in both countries.
PMID: 29982149 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Environmental Research - July 3, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Cheng J, Zhang Y, Zhang W, Xu Z, Bambrick H, Hu W, Tong S Tags: Environ Res Source Type: research