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When considering social determinants of health, what are the impacts of improved home heating on health outcomes?

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In Google Scholar do a search on social determinants of health home heating zealand

Remember to limit your date range so up-to-date articles are presented. e.g.

 

This finds several articles including:

Howden-Chapman, P., Fyfe, C., Nathan, K., Keall, M., Riggs, L., & Pierse, N. (2021). The effects of housing on health and well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Population Review47, 16–32.

Within the article you can use the Ctrl and F keys on your computer keyboard to find where the term "heat" appears to quickly identify the relevant sections of the article which will be highlighted in yellow e.g.

Note: If there is no full text for an article in Google Scholar then search on the journal article title in Library Search remembering to change "Everything" to "Journal articles" which will search most of the Ara databases at the same time.e.g.

 

Another Google Scholar search could be on a specific illness often impacted by living in colder homes e.g. asthma or COPD e.g.