Energy insecurity: A framework for understanding energy, the built environment, and health among vulnerable populations in the context of climate change

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hernández, Diana ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EDITORIAL; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH; HOUSING; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84875165347     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301179     Document Type: Editorial

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