Effluents from a pulp and paper mill: A skin and health survey of children living in upstream and downstream villages

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 373-379

  Lee, J ^a   Koh, D ^a   Andijani, M ^b   Saw, S M ^a   Munoz, C ^b   Chia, S E ^a   Wong, M L ^a   Hong, C Y ^a   Ong, C N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper ^*  (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PAPER INDUSTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; RIVER; SINGAPORE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PAPER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SKIN DISEASES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; MILIARIA;

EID: 0036279297     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.6.373     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Paper and pulp industry; environmental and public health issues
2. Directorate General for General information, Directorate of Foreign information Services
3. Finnish Environmental Research Group
4. Pulp bleaching and the environment - The situation 1993
5. Organohalogens of natural or unknown origin in surface water and precipitation
6. Paper and pulp industry; injuries and non-malignant diseases
7. Cutaneous signs of systemic toxicity due to dioxins and related chemicals
8. A morbidity study of former pentachlorophenol-production workers
9. Polychlorinated biphenyl exposure and human disease
10. Self-reliance in health among village women