| dc.contributor.author | Smoyer-Tomic, KE | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Rainham, Daniel Gareth Charles | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-27T15:14:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-27T15:14:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-12 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Smoyer-Tomic, KE, and DGC Rainham. 2001. "Beating the heat: Development and evaluation of a Canadian hot weather health-response plan ." Environmental health perspectives 109(12): 1241-1248. Reproduced with permission from Environmental Health Perspectives | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0091-6765 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.011091241 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/28055 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An increasing number of cities subject to hazardous summer weather in the United States and Canada have began to develop and implement hot weather response plans to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths. In this study we focus on heat-mortality relationships in Toronto, Ontario, between 1980 and 1996 and evaluate the potential effectiveness of the city's interim hot weather-health response plan. Using two heat stress indexes-humidex and apparent temperature-we identified excess mortality associated with hot and humid weather and then estimated excess deaths for hot and cool summers. Mortality rates for all ages and for > 64 years age groups rose with increasing humidex and apparent temperature, with no significant increase for the population | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Environmental health perspectives | en_US |
| dc.title | Beating the heat: Development and evaluation of a Canadian hot weather health-response plan | en_US |
| dc.type | article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.volume | 109 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issue | 12 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1241 | en_US |
