Cutting the cost of cold : affordable warmth for healthier homes /

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Academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rudge, Janet, 1949-, Nicol, Fergus, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : E & FN Spon, ©2000.
Temas:
Housing and health > Great Britain.
Dwellings > Heating and ventilation > Health aspects > Great Britain.
Mortality > Environmental aspects > Great Britain.
Poverty.
Cold Temperature > adverse effects
Housing > economics
Poverty
Respiratory Tract Diseases > prevention & control
health ad
Logement et santé > Grande-Bretagne.
Mortalité > Aspect de l'environnement > Grande-Bretagne.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Dwellings > Heating and ventilation > Health aspects
Housing and health
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Current research. Cold weather, cold homes and winter mortality
  • Housing and winter death: epidemiological evidence
  • Cold, cold housing and respiratory illnesses
  • Cold stress, circulatory illness and the elderly
  • Dust mite allergens, indoor humidity and asthma
  • Impact of fuel poverty on health in tower hamlets
  • Tolerant building: the impact of energy efficiency measures on living conditions and health status. Tools for research and practice. The affordable warmth index
  • Mould index
  • Winter morbidity and fuel poverty: mapping the connection
  • Modelling the health cost of cold damp housing. Inter-agency partnership in practice. Asthma: lessons of the Cornwall housing interventions study
  • Treating cold, damp and asthma with affordable warmth
  • Promoting partnership: the Nottingham example
  • Urban care: working in partnership with communities
  • Working in partnership: lessons from ten case studies. Ways foward. The cost of poor housing--and how to reduce it
  • Healthier homes: the role of health authorities
  • The unavoidable imperative: cutting the cost of cold.

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