Establishing links between air quality and health: Searching for the impossible?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 831-841

  Dunn, Christine ^a   Kingham, Simon ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air quality; Environment; Health

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; POLLUTANT; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR QUALITY; GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY; HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; POLLUTION MONITORING;

EID: 0029669722     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00182-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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