The relationship between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness in Toronto, Ontario, 2005

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 829-831

  Bassil, Kate L ^a   Cole, Donald C ^b   Moineddin, Rahim ^b   Lou, Wendy ^b   Craig, Alan M ^c   Schwartz, Brian ^d   Rea, Elizabeth ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Toronto Emergency Medical Services   (Canada)

^d Sunnybrook Osler Centre For Prehospital Care   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEALTH SERVICES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; STATISTICS;

AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; ONTARIO;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 80052641137     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.101485     Document Type: Article

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