Responding to heatwave intensity: Excess Heat Factor is a superior predictor of health service utilisation and a trigger for heatwave plans

• Main Authors: Benjamin D. Scalley (Author), Tony Spicer (Author), Le Jian (Author), Jianguo Xiao (Author), John Nairn (Author), Andrew Robertson (Author), Tarun Weeramanthri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: To determine which measures of heatwave have the greatest predictive power for increases in health service utilisation in Perth, Western Australia. Methods: Three heatwave formulas were compared, using Poisson or zero‐inflated Poisson regression, against the number of presentatio...