Urban Air Pollution and Health Inequities: A workshop report

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2001, Pages 357-374

  Samet, J M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Community intervention; Environmental justice; Environmental monitoring; Genetic susceptibility; Health status susceptibility; Population surveillance; Public policy; Urban health

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LAW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN; POLICY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WORKSHOP;

EID: 0034961114     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.109-1240553     Document Type: Article

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