Health risk assessment maps for arsenic groundwater content: Application of national geochemical databases

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-141

  Rapant, Stanislav ^a   Krěmová, Katarína ^b  

^a Geological Survey of Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Contamination; Groundwater; Health risk; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; DATABASE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOVAKIA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOVAKIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 33947651089     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-006-9072-y     Document Type: Article

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