Heat awareness and response among Montrealc residents with chronic cardiac and pulmonary disease

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-240

  Kosatsky, Tom ^a,f   Dufresne, Julie ^a   Richard, Lucie ^b   Renouf, Annie ^a   Giannetti, Nadia ^c   Bourbeau, Jean ^c   Julien, Marcel ^d   Braidy, Toseph ^e   Sauve, Claude ^d  

^a DSP de Montreal (Public Health)   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Department of Medicine   (Canada)

^f BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copd; Health risks; Heart failure; Heat; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CANADA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART FAILURE; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR CONDITIONING; AWARENESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67649985906     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405548     Document Type: Article

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