Tackling fuel poverty through facilitating energy tariff switching: a participatory action research study in vulnerable groups
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Tackling fuel poverty through facilitating energy tariff switching: a participatory action research study in vulnerable groups.
OBJECTIVES A fifth of UK households live in fuel poverty, with significant health risks. Recent government strategy integrates public health with local government. This study examined barriers to switching energy tariffs and the impact of an energy tariff switching 'intervention' on vulnerable peoples' likelihood to, success in, switching tariffs. STUDY DESIGN Participatory Action Research (P...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0033-3506
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.07.004