Workers: the climate canaries

Affiliations

¹ Cora Roelofs is with the Community Health Program, Tufts University, Medford, MA. David Wegman is with the Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Editorial

Cora Roelofs et al. Am J Public Health. 2014 Oct.

. 2014 Oct;104(10):1799-801.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302145. Epub 2014 Aug 14.

¹ Cora Roelofs is with the Community Health Program, Tufts University, Medford, MA. David Wegman is with the Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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