Cutting the Cost of Cold (eBook, ePUB)

Affordable Warmth for Healthier Homes
Redaktion: Nicol, Fergus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135804176
• Artikelnr.: 42726108

Autorenporträt

Nicol, Fergus; Rudge, Janet

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Brenda Boardman
University of Oxford Part One; Current Research 1 Cold Weather
Cold Homes and Winter Mortality Bill Keatinge and Gavin Donaldson
Queen Mary and Westfield College 2 Housing and Winter Death: Epidemiological Evidence Paul Wilkinson
Megan Landon and Simon Stevenson
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 3 Cold
Cold Housing and Respiratory Illnesses Ken Collins
University College Hospitals 4 Cold Stress
Circulatory Illness and the Elderly James Goodwin
Exeter University 5 Dust Mite Allergens
Indoor Humidity and Asthma Stirling Howieson and Alan Lawson
University of Strathclyde 6 Impact of Fuel Poverty on Health in Tower Hamlets Lutfa Khanom
Tower Hamlets Health Strategy Group 7 Tolerant Building: the Impact of Energy Efficiency Measures on Living Conditions and Health Status Geoff Green
Sheffield Hallam University
Dave Ormandy
University of Warwick
John Brazier
University of Sheffield and Jan Gilbertson
Sheffield Hallam University Part Two: Tools for Research and Practice 8 The Affordable Warmth Index Jake Chapman and Brian Scannell
National Energy Services 9 Mould Index Tadj Oreszczyn
Bartlett School of Architecture and Stephen Pretlove
South Bank University
10 Winter Morbidity and Fuel Poverty: Mapping the Connection Janet Rudge
University of North London 11 Modelling the Health Cost of Cold Damp Housing Jean Peters and Matt Stevenson
University of Sheffield Part Three: Inter-Agency Partnership in Practice 12 Asthma: Lessons of the Cornwall Housing Intervention Study Ian Mackenzie
Cornwall and Scilly Isles Health Authority and Margaret Somerville
South and West Devon Health Authority 13 Treating Cold
Damp and Asthma with Affordable Warmth Rob Howard
Nottingham NEA and Roger Critchley
Health and Housing Group 14 Promoting Partnership: The Nottingham Example Helen Thompson
Nottingham Health Action Group 15 Urban Care: Working in Partnership with Communities Adrian Jones
Birmingham City Council 16 Working in Partnership: Lessons from Ten Case Studies Emma Jones
Victoria Wiltshire
Association for the Conservation of Energy and Helena Poldervaart
Projects in Partnership Part Four: Ways Forward 17 The Cost of Poor Housing - and How to Reduce It Peter Ambrose
University of Brighton and Sussex University 18 Healthier Homes: the Role of Health Authorities Martin Bardsley
East London and the City Health Authority 19 The Unavoidable Imperative: Cutting the Cost of Cold Peter Smith
Sheffield Hallam University