The environmental burden of disease in Canada: Respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and congenital affliction

Environmental Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-249

  Boyd, David R ^a   Genuis, Stephen J ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Congenital affliction; Environmental burden of disease; Environmentally attributable fraction; Pollution; Respiratory disease

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; DRINKING WATER; RADON; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ASTHMA; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38549175299     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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