TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaikh, Mohamadzahir G.
AU  - Azhar, Gulrez (Guide) 
AU  - Desai, Urvi (Guide)
TI  - Heat wave health impact assessment : a community level sustentative study to heat action plan (2013) of ahmedabad (Also available on CD)
U1  - FSECC TH-0025 
PY  - 2013///
N1  - CONTENTS1. Research Brief  1 1.1. Introduction to climate variability and Human Health 1 1.2. The Heat waves 3 1.3. Aim  5 1.4. Objectives  5 1.5. Research questions 5 1.6. Scope and Limitations  6 1.7. Methodology 7 1.8. Need for the study  7 1.8.1. Over all conceptualization of the study 9 1.8.2. Steps followed for study  10 2. Literature review  14 2.1. Important Terminology 14 3. Research Design 19 3.1. What is case control study?  19 3.2. Cases and Controls  19 3.2.1. The case 19 3.2.2. Controls 20 3.2.3. Matching Cases and Controls  20 3.3. Where the study fits?  20 4. HAP (Heat Action Plan) for Ahmedabad city  21 4.1. Purpose of HAP  22 5. Case Studies : Building up a scenario 23 5.1. NHWP, England  24 5.2. NHHP, Australia 24 5.3. Summary  25 6. The case of Ahmedabad  27 6.1. Why Ahmedabad : Selection criteria  28 6.2. Ahmedabad Climate: Data Analysis 30 6.3. Ahmedabad: Demographics  32 6.4. Selection of Survey locations  34 6.4.1. Eastern Ahmedabad 34 6.4.2. Selection of Rural comparative areas : Kalol and Kheda 38 6.5. Consideration of Indicators for primary data collection  39 6.5.1. The elderly  40 6.5.2. Infants and children . 40 6.5.3. People with chronic diseases 40 6.5.4. People on medications 41 6.5.5. People with weak socioeconomic status  42 6.5.6. People who are vulnerable due to their occupations 42 7. Data collection  43 7.1. Primary data collection through personal interview  43 7.2. FGD: Overview of the issues  44 7.3. Criterias considered for FGD ranking  45 7.4. Observational reporting:  45 8. Correlations with reported mortality and emergency call data  46 8.1. Hospital Admission data and Mortality data  47 8.2. EMRI : 108 Emergency Call out data  47 8.3. Climate data  47 8.4. Limitation  47 9. Analysis of secondary data  48 9.1. Heat kills  48 9.2. Emergency and Hospital data analysed 49 9.3. Inference from secondary data analysis  51 9.4. Analysis of data and comparison 51 10. Final result and conclusion 55 10.1. Women group inferences 55 10.2. Ahmedabad study inferences  56 10.3. Rural study inferences  57 10.4. Pilot study inferences  57 11. Conclusion 58 12. Annexures  60 12.1. Respondent?s consent form 60 12.2. Heat Wave Health Impact Assessment Questionnaire: Page 1  61 12.3. Heat Wave Health Impact Assessment Questionnaire: Page 2  62 13. Works Cited  63
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