Associations between mortality and air pollution in central Europe

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 283-287

  Peters, Annette ^a   Skorkovsky, Jiri ^b   Kotesovec, Frantisek ^c   Brynda, Jaromir ^b   Spix, Claudia ^a   Wichmann, H Erich ^a   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Hygiene   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Epidemiology; Mortality; Particulate pollution; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EUROPE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 0034117372     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108283     Document Type: Article

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