Is Daily Mortality Associated Specifically with Fine Particles?

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 927-939

  Schwartz, Joel ^a   Dockery, Douglas W ^a   Neas, Lucas M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL ACIDITY CONCENTRATION; DAILY MORTALITY; HEART DISEASE; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; POISSON REGRESSION;

AEROSOLS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXHAUST GASES; HEALTH HAZARDS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PH; PULMONARY DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

AIR POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 0030272194     PISSN: 10473289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.1996.10467528     Document Type: Article

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