| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Current research. Cold weather, cold homes and winter mortality -- Housing and winter death: epidemiological evidence -- Cold, cold housing and respiratory illnesses -- Cold stress, circulatory illness and the elderly -- Dust mite allergens, indoor humidity and asthma -- Impact of fuel poverty on health in tower hamlets -- Tolerant building: the impact of energy efficiency measures on living conditions and health status. Tools for research and practice. The affordable warmth index -- Mould index -- Winter morbidity and fuel poverty: mapping the connection -- Modelling the health cost of cold damp housing. Inter-agency partnership in practice. Asthma: lessons of the Cornwall housing interventions study -- Treating cold, damp and asthma with affordable warmth -- Promoting partnership: the Nottingham example -- Urban care: working in partnership with communities --Working in partnership: lessons from ten case studies. Ways foward. The cost of poor housing--and how to reduce it -- Healthier homes: the role of health authorities -- The unavoidable imperative: cutting the cost of cold. |
| Summary |
Academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Housing and health -- Great Britain.
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Housing and health. |
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Great Britain. |
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Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Health aspects -- Great Britain.
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Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Health aspects. |
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Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation. |
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Mortality -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain.
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Mortality. |
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Cold Temperature -- adverse effects. |
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Housing -- economics. |
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Poverty. |
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Respiratory Tract Diseases -- prevention & control. |
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health ad. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rudge, Janet, 1949-
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Nicol, Fergus, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cutting the cost of cold. London ; New York : E & FN Spon, ©2000 (DLC) 00021310 |
| ISBN |
0203986059 |
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9780203986059 |
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0419250506 |
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9780419250500 |
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