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

• Hoofdauteurs: Benjamin D. Scalley (Auteur), Tony Spicer (Auteur), Le Jian (Auteur), Jianguo Xiao (Auteur), John Nairn (Auteur), Andrew Robertson (Auteur), Tarun Weeramanthri (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...