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Autor/in | Rango, Nicholas |
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Titel | The Social Epidemiology of Accidental Hypothermia among the Aged. |
Quelle | In: Gerontologist, 25 (1985) 4, S.424-30 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Age Differences; Death; Disabilities; High Risk Persons; Older Adults; Poverty; Racial Differences; Sex Differences; Social Isolation |
Abstract | Describes the 1970-1979 incidence of exposure-related hypothermia deaths in the United States. Showed nonwhite men at highest and white women at lowest risk at all ages. Age-related impairment in theromoregulation, functional disability, poverty, and social isolation were found to increase elderly individual's susceptibility to this environmental hazard. (Author/NRB) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |