Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity

Climate Change and Global Health

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 21-37

  Hajat, Shakoor ^a   Barnard, Lucy Telfar ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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