Mortality effects of a copper smelter strike and reduced ambient sulfate particulate matter air pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 679-683

  Pope III, C Arden ^a   Rodermund, Douglas L ^a   Gee, Matthew M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Copper smelter; Mortality; Natural experiment; Particulate matter; Sulfates

Indexed keywords

COPPER; SULFATE; SULFUR OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMELTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; METALLURGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRIKES, EMPLOYEE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249003733     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9762     Document Type: Article

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