Indoor air health risk perceptions in Australia

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 275-284

  Dingle, Peter ^a   Lalla, Fairuz ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Indoor air; Risk communication; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; PESTICIDE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0036438460     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066527     Document Type: Article

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