Social isolation and vulnerability to heatwave-related mortality in the urban elderly population: A time-series multi-community study in Korea
Although several studies have reported that social isolation is one of the important health risk factors in the elderly population living in urban areas, its effects on vulnerability to heatwaves have been studied relatively less than climatic and other socio-economic factors. Thus, we investigated...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Environment International |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020318237 |