The burden of air pollution: Impacts among racial minorities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2001, Pages 501-506

  Gwynn, R Charon ^a,b   Thurston, George D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidic aerosols; Air pollution; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Ozone; Particulate matter; Poverty; Race; Respiratory hospital admissions; Socioeconomic status; Sulfate; Time series techniques

Indexed keywords

OZONE; SULFATE;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

PIERINAE;

EID: 0034823966     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s4501     Document Type: Article

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