Peacock JB, Pinsent RJ, Jankowiak P, Steele B, Hinsley J. Reported morbidity and the weather.
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS 1975;
25:247-51. [PMID:
1177221 PMCID:
PMC2157685]
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Abstract
Some observations have been made about the influence of the weather on the use of the general-practitioner service. It is difficult to disentangle the biological and behavioural components of these findings, but in general extremes of weather-low temperatures and sunshine in winter and high temperatures and sunshine in summer-appeared to increase the numbers of reported episodes of respiratory illness.
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