Ethics in community-based environmental epidemiology and public health practice: Some considerations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 109-112

  Wartenberg, Daniel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data disclosure; Environmental epidemiology; Ethical challenges; Public health practice; Whistle blowing

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0029995614     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04996-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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