Heatwave and work-related injuries and illnesses in Adelaide, Australia: a case-crossover analysis using the Excess Heat Factor (EHF) as a universal heatwave index
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The Excess Heat Factor: A Metric for Heatwave Intensity and Its Use in Classifying Heatwave Severity
Heatwaves represent a significant natural hazard in Australia, arguably more hazardous to human life than bushfires, tropical cyclones and floods. In the 2008/2009 summer, for example, many more lives were lost to heatwaves than to that summer's bushfires which were among the worst in the history of the Australian nation. For many years, these other forms of natural disaster have received much ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0340-0131,1432-1246
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-018-1376-6