Particulate matter in urban areas: Health-based economic assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 257, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 133-146

  El Fadel, M ^a   Massoud, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Dose response function; Economic assessment; Health impacts; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION POLICY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

LEBANON;

EID: 0034632780     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00503-9     Document Type: Article

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