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Alternative strategies for the UK department of health and social security (DHSS): Some comments
Author(s) -
Moores W. H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0196-1748
DOI - 10.1002/joc.3370080307
Subject(s) - social security , payment , emergency department , scheme (mathematics) , health department , business , actuarial science , political science , medicine , finance , public health , nursing , law , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Giles and Kings (1987) suggest the use of windchill as an alternative indication of coldness for use in the UK Department of Health and Social Security's exceptionally cold weather payments scheme. It is argued here that the use of windchill confers no obvious benefit and would result in added problems.