Inupiat health and proposed Alaskan oil development: Results of the first integrated health impact assessment/environmental impact statement for proposed oil development on Alaska's North Slope

EcoHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 500-513

  Wernham, Aaron ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental Impact Statement; Health Impact Assessment; Human health; Inuit; National Environmental Policy Act

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCOME; METABOLIC DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349087427     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-007-0132-2     Document Type: Article

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