General Resources

Websites

KWILLT

This website includes more up to date information on KWILLT including the methods, study findings, resources, presentations and publications.

http://kwillt.org/

The Winter Warmth Toolkit

Planning and preparedness is essential to keep our communities safe and well. This website will provide you with information, statistics and communication resources to help your organisation ensure that vulnerable people stay safe, well and warm during the winter.

www.winterwarmthengland.co.uk

Transcripts

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Reading list

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  2. Department of Health. Cold Weather Plan for England: Why Cold Weather is Essential to Health and Well-being. London: Department of Health, 2011.
  3. Marmot Review Team. The Health Impacts of Cold Homes and Fuel Poverty. London: Friends of the Earth, 2011.
  4. Liddell C, Morris C. Fuel poverty and human health: a review of recent evidence. Energy Policy 2010;38:2987–97. [Web of Science]
  5. Department of Health. How to Reduce the Risk of Seasonal Excess Deaths Systematically in Vulnerable Older People to Impact at Population Level. London: Department of Health, Health Inequalities National Support Team, 2010.
  6. Healy JD. Excess winter mortality in Europe: a cross country analysis identifying key risk factors. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:784–9. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
  7. Dear KB, McMichael AJ. The health impacts of cold homes and fuel poverty. BMJ 2011;342:d2807. [FREE Full text]
  8. West Midland Public Health Observatory Excess Winter Deaths Atlas. http://www.wmpho.org.uk/excesswinterdeathsinEnglandatlas/atlas.html (accessed Nov 2011).
  9. World Health Organisation. Environmental Burden of Disease Associated with Inadequate Housing. Copenhagen: World Health Organisation, 2011.
  10. National Energy Action. Fuel Poverty Facts: Excess Winter Mortality. http://www.nea.org.uk/policy-and-research/fp-facts (accessed Feb 2013).
  11. Department of Health. Keep Warm Keep Well. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/
    PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_121382     (accessed Nov 2011).
  12. National Energy Action. Warm Homes Campaign Toolkit. http://www.nea.org.uk/campaigns-events/whc-2013 (accessed Feb 2013).
  13. Department of Health. Winterwatch. http://winterwatch.dh.gov.uk/ (accessed Nov 2011).
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    Energyandwatersaving/Energygrants/DG_10018661     (accessed Jan 2012).
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    green_deal.aspx     (accessed Jan 2012).
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