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Title Cutting the cost of cold : affordable warmth for healthier homes / edited by Janet Rudge & Fergus Nicol
Published London ; New York : E & FN Spon, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Housing and health -- Great Britain
Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Health aspects -- Great Britain
Mortality -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain
Poverty.
Cold Temperature -- adverse effects
Housing -- economics
Poverty
Respiratory Tract Diseases -- prevention & control
health ad
poverty.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Health aspects
Housing and health
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Rudge, Janet, 1949-
Nicol, Fergus, 1940-
LC no. 00021310
ISBN 0203986059
9780203986059
0419250506
9780419250500
9781135804183
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9781135804138
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9781135804176
1135804176
9781138408722
1138408727