The big ban on bituminous coal sales revisited: Serious epidemics and pronounced trends feign excess mortality previously attributed to heavy black-smoke exposure

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-350

  Wittmaack, Klaus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IRELAND; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE;

COAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IRELAND; MORTALITY; SEASONS; SMOKE;

EID: 33847126955     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370601144340     Document Type: Article

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