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

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 presentations to eme...

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Main Authors: Scalley, B., Spicer, T., Jian, Le, Xiao, J., Nairn, J., Robertson, A., Weeramanthri, T.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34865