Individual lifetime exposure to inorganic arsenic using a space - Time information system

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 184-197

  Meliker, Jaymie R ^a   Slotnick, Melissa J ^b   AvRuskin, Gillian A ^a   Kaufmann, Andrew ^a   Fedewa, Stacey A ^b   Goovaerts, Pierre ^a   Jacquez, Geoffrey J ^a   Nriagu, Jerome O ^b  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Environmental epidemiology; Exposure assessment; GIS; STIS

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING HABIT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOBILIZATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33846445729     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-006-0119-2     Document Type: Article

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