Childhood exposure to PM10: Relation between personal, classroom, and outdoor concentrations

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 888-894

  Janssen, Nicole A H ^a   Hoek, Gerard ^a   Harssema, Hendrik ^a   Brunekreef, Bert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Classrooms; Outdoor; PM10; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; AIR POLLUTANT; CHILD; FEMALE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0031283249     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.54.12.888     Document Type: Article

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