EMF and health

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue , 2005, Pages 165-189

  Feychting, Maria ^a   Ahlbom, Anders ^a,b   Kheifets, Leeka ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood leukemia; Electromagnetic fields; Epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Scientific development

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAGNETIC FIELD; META ANALYSIS; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELLULAR PHONE; CHILD; COCARCINOGENESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GUIDELINES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 17444388476     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.26.021304.144445     Document Type: Review

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