Particulate air pollution and daily mortality: Can results be generalized to Latin American countries?;Contaminacion atmosferica por particulas y mortalidad diaria: Se pueden generalizar los resultados a los paises de latinoamerica!

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 403-411

  Romieu, Isabelle ^a,d   Borja Aburto, Victor Hugo ^b,c  

^a Ctro Panam de Ecologia Humana y S   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d Ctro Panam de Ecologia Humana y S   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Latin America; Mortality; Particles

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0030807762     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-36341997000500002     Document Type: Article

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