Valuing the adult health effects of air pollution in Chinese cities

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 882-892

  Mead, Robert W ^a   Brajer, Victor ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Economic valuation; Health effects; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHILD HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33845643048     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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