Childhood lead exposure in the Palestinian Authority, Israel, and Jordan: Results from the Middle Eastern Regional Cooperation Project, 1996-2000

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 917-922

  Safi, Jamal ^a   Fischbein, Alf ^b,k   El Haj, Sameer ^c   Sansour, Ramzi ^c   Jaghabir, Madi ^d   Abu Hashish, Mohammed ^a   Suleiman, Hassan ^a   Safi, Nimer ^a   Abu Hamda, Abed ^e   Witt, Joyce K ^f   Platkov, Efim ^b,k   Reingold, Steven ^g   Alayyan, Amber ^h   Berman, Tamar ^f   Bercovitch, Matti ⁱ   Choudhri, Yogesh ^j   Richter, Elihu D ^f  

^a Environmental Protection and Research Institute   (Palestine)

^b Sanz Laniado Medical Center   (Israel)

^c BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^e Kupat Holim Meuhedet ^*  (Israel)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g Maimonides Hospital   (United States)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^j HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^k Selikoff Center for Environmental Health and Human Development   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Ambient lead pollution; Blood lead; Childhood lead exposures; Middle East regional project

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; GASOLINE; LEAD;

ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD HEALTH; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JORDAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JORDAN; LEAD;

EID: 33745041942     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8339     Document Type: Article

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