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Extreme heat reference list


1) Environment Canada, 1996, Climate and Weather Glossary of Terms, Atmospheric, Climate and Water Systems Branch

2) Kovats, R.S., B. Mennie, A.J. McMicheal, C. Corvalan and R. Bertollini, 2000, Climate change and human health: Impact and adaptation, World Health Organization (WHO), 47 pp

3) Hengeveld, H. 1995, Understanding Atmospheric Change: A survey of the Background Science and Implications of Climate Change and Ozone Depletion, 2nd Edition, ìA State of the Environment Report, No. 95-2, Townsview, Ontario, Environment Canada

4) IBID

5) IBID

6) IBID

7) Clarke, J.F. 1972, Some effects of the urban structure on heat mortality, Environmental Research, 5: 93-104

8) Epstein, P.R. 2000, Global Warming: Health and Disease, Campaign for Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund

9) Darling, A. 2000, Heat Wave: A Major Summer Killer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

10) Wainwright, S., Buchanan, S., Mainzer, R., Parrish, and T. Sinks, 1999, Cardiovascular mortality: The hidden peril of heat waves, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 14(4): 222-231

11) IBID

12) Statistics Canada, 1996, Manitoba Demographic Characteristics

13) Darling, A, 2000, Heat Wave: A Major Summer Killer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

14) Shapiro, Y. A. Magazanik, a R. Udassin, G. Ben-Baruch, E. Schwartz, Y. Schoenfeld, 1979, Heat intolerance in former heatstroke patients, Annals of Internal Medicine, 90: 913-916

15) Ellis, F.P. 1976, Heath wave deaths and drugs affecting temperature regulation, British Medical Journal, 2(6033):474