Hazard potential ranking of hazardous waste landfill sites and risk of congenital anomalies

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 768-776

  Vrijheid, M ^a   Dolk, H ^a   Armstrong, B ^a   Boschi, G ^b   Busby, A ^a   Jorgensen, T ^c   Pointer, P ^d   Abramsky, Lenore ^e   Bianchi, Fabrizio ^f   Garne, Ester ^e   Nelen, Vera ^e   Robert, Elisabeth ^e   Scott, John E S ^g   Stone, David ^e   Tenconi, Romano ^h  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Azienda Padova Sevizi Spa   (Italy)

^c COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners ^*  (Denmark)

^d Woodside House   (United Kingdom)

^e North Thames ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f Tuscany EUROCAT Register   (Italy)

^g Northern RegionFetal Abnormality Survey   (United Kingdom)

^h North East Italy EUROCAT Register   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EUROPE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; LANDFILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; WATER POLLUTION;

ABNORMALITIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036845938     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.11.768     Document Type: Article

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