Lines that connect: Assessing the causality inference in the case of particulate pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-92

  Bates, David Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adverse health effects of air pollutants; Air pollution; Inference of causality; Particle pollution; PM10

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXHAUST GAS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK; SMOKING; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034100594     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3454504     Document Type: Note

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