What are people dying of on high air pollution days?

Environmental Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 26-35

  Schwartz, J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0027982927     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1994.1004     Document Type: Article

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