Perspectives on rural environmental health in central Europe

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-134

  Trnovec, Tomas ^a   Kross, Burton C ^b   Ginter, Emil ^a  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Home heating; Industrial pollution; Occupational risk factors; Rural environmental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000295513     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/oeh.1996.2.2.125     Document Type: Review

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