Polluted air - Outdoors and indoors

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 432-438

  Myers, I ^a   Maynard, Robert L ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Health   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental tobacco smoke; Indoors; Outdoors; Sick building syndrome

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RADON; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AMBIENT AIR; BIOMASS; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATALITY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SMOKE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CARBON MONOXIDE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 24944458231     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi137     Document Type: Review

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