The effect of heat waves on mental health in a temperate Australian City

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1369-1375

  Hansen, Alana ^a   Bi, Peng ^a   Nitschke, Monika ^b   Ryan, Philip ^a   Pisaniello, Dino ^a   Tucker, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dementia; Heat waves; Mental health; Psychiatric; Schizophrenia; Temperature; Weather

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SENILITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRESS; WEATHER; WELLBEING; HEAT; STATISTICS;

HEAT; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ADMISSION; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 55949115053     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11339     Document Type: Article

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