Talk about cancer: Environment and health in Oceanpoint

Health and Place

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-325

  Whittaker, Andrea ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Environmental health; Place; Popular epidemiology; Risk; Social construction of health

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; LANDFILL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER RISK; CONTAMINATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032436521     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(98)00032-X     Document Type: Article

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