Air pollution and health: Causality criteria of environmental epidemiology;Luftverschmutzung und Gesundheit - Kausalitatskriterien der Umweltepidemiologie

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 127, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 1334-1344

  Kunzli N ^a   Braun Fahrlander C ^a   Rapp, R ^a   Ackermann Liebrich, U ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND;

AIR POLLUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030758172     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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