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- Title
Methods to calculate the heat index as an exposure metric in environmental health research.
- Authors
Anderson, G Brooke; Bell, Michelle L; Peng, Roger D
- Abstract
Environmental health research employs a variety of metrics to measure heat exposure, both to directly study the health effects of outdoor temperature and to control for temperature in studies of other environmental exposures, including air pollution. To measure heat exposure, environmental health studies often use heat index, which incorporates both air temperature and moisture. However, the method of calculating heat index varies across environmental studies, which could mean that studies using different algorithms to calculate heat index may not be comparable.
- Publication
Environmental health perspectives, 2013, Vol 121, Issue 10, p1111
- ISSN
1552-9924
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.1206273