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Heat exposure and human health in the context of climate change /

Heat Exposure and Human Health in the Context of Climate Change introduces the effects of heat on human health, especially in the context of climate change. The book utilizes case studies in addition to foundational knowledge and theory to demonstrate the epidemiological impact of heat, also present...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Guo, Yuming (Editor ), Li, Shanshan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA, United States : Elsevier, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Yuming Guo and Shanshan Li
  • Extreme heat and climate change / Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Donna Green
  • The biologic mechanism for heat exposure and human health / Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, Mariana Matera Veras and Paulo Hilario Naschimento Saldiva
  • Heat exposure and child health / Naoto Fujii and Yasushi Honda
  • Heat exposure and elderly health / Niilo R.I. Ryti and Jouni J.K. Jaakkola
  • Heat exposure and occupational health / Dino Pisaniello and Rosario Di Corleto
  • Heat exposure and cardiorespiratory health / Shanshan Li, Pei Yu, Suying Guo and Yuming Guo
  • Heat exposure and mental health in the context of climate change / Hyewon Lee, Ho Kim and Nazife Pehlivan
  • Heat exposure and the transmission of infectious diseases / Paul L.C. Chua, Xerxes T. Seposo and Masahiro Hashizume
  • Geographic variation in impacts of heat exposure on human health / Qi Zhao, Yuming Guo and Shanshan Li
  • Temporal variation in impacts of heat exposure on human health / Katherine Arbuthnott, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera and Antonio Gasparrini
  • Strategies to reduce the health impacts of heat exposure / Yuming Guo, Yiwen Zhang, Pei Yu, Yao Wu, Bo Wen, Zhengyu Yang, Rahini Mahendran and Shanshan Li.