Health risks of energy systems

Risk Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 377-383

  Krewitt, Wolfram ^a   Hurley, Fintan ^b   Trukenmüller, Alfred ^a   Friedrich, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Comparative risk assessment; Energy systems

Indexed keywords

IMPACT PATHWAY METHODS;

AIR POLLUTION; DISEASES; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HEALTH RISKS;

AIR QUALITY; ENERGY; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; POWER PLANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FOSSIL FUELS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032143797     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00351.x     Document Type: Article

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