Rice burning and asthma hospitalizations, Butte County, California, 1983-1992

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 980-985

  Jacobs, Jeffrey ^a   Kreutzer, Richard ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural burning; Asthma; Particulate matter; PM10; Poisson regression; Rice burning; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DOSE RESPONSE; FIRE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030862460     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105980     Document Type: Article

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