Biologically plausible particulate air pollution mortality concentration-response functions

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 309-313

  Roberts, Steven ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Daily mortality; Dose response relationship; Models; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542498394     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6428     Document Type: Article

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