Assessing a population's exposure to heat and humidity: an empirical approach

Peter Byass1, Wayne Twine, Mark Collinson

  • 1Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

Global Health Action
|September 23, 2010
PubMed
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