Assessment of exposure to mercury from industrial emissions: Comparing "distance as a proxy" and dispersion modelling approaches

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 380-388

  Hodgson, Susan ^a,b   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^b   Colvile, Roy ^b   Jarup, Lars ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; FIELD EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; METEOROLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR POLLUTION; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MERCURY; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34249882186     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.026781     Document Type: Article

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