Settling with danger: Conditions and health problems in peri-urban neighbourhoods in Aleppo, Syria

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-125

  Hammal, Fadi ^a   Mock, Jeremiah ^b   Ward, Kenneth D ^c   Fouad, M Fouad ^d   Beech, Bettina M ^e   Maziak, Wasim ^f  

^a Jubran Khalil   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d Aleppo Cancer Center Project   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^e University of Memphis   (United States)

^f SYRIAN CENTER FOR TOBACCO STUDIES   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; PERIURBAN AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ALEPPO; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HALAB; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; WORLD;

EID: 27644468402     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624780501700209     Document Type: Article

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