Environmental health research: Setting an agenda by spinning our wheels or climbing the mountain?

Health and Place

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-13

  Eyles, John ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Social theory

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; INSECTICIDE; LEAD; PESTICIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0031104746     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(96)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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