Air pollution exposure in European cities: The 'EXPOLIS' study

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 495-518

  Jantunen, Matti J ^a   Hänninen, Otto ^a   Katsouyanni, Klea ^b   Knöppel, Helmut ^c   Kuenzli, Nino ^d   Lebret, Erik ^e   Maroni, Marco ^f   Saarela, Kristina ^g   Srám, Radim ^h   Zmirou, Denis ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^h Regional Institute of Hygiene   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2442770052     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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