Environmental sustainability: A target for environmental epidemiology?

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 179-180

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOALS; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33845810015     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000249505.89293.5c     Document Type: Note

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