Air pollution and emergency room visits for asthma in Santa Clara County, California

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 216-222

  Lipsett, Michael ^a,c   Hurley, Susan ^b   Ostro, Bart ^a  

^a California Off Environ Hlth H   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Emergency room visits; Epidemiology; Particulate air pollution; Wood smoke

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; RAIN;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; HAZE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WINTER; WOOD;

EID: 0030959435     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105216     Document Type: Article

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