Comparative health risks of domestic waste combustion in urban and rural Slovakia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6847-6853

  Krajčovičová, Jana ^a   Eschenroeder, Alan Q ^b  

^a SLOVAK HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COMBUSTION; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CANCER RISK; CONCERNED POPULATION; RURAL SLOVAKIA;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COMBUSTION; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CANCER; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; HEALTH RISK; LAND USE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; HEALTH HAZARD; INCINERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SLOVAKIA; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BENZOFURANS; CADMIUM; CHILD; CHROMIUM; CITIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; INCINERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOVAKIA; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

BRATISLAVA; BRATISLAVSKY; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 35148876217     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0627186     Document Type: Article

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