Correlating element atmospheric deposition and cancer mortality in Portugal: Data handling and preliminary results

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-351

  Sarmento, S ^a,b   Wolterbeek, H Th ^a   Verburg, T G ^a   Freitas, M C ^b  

^a Interuniversity Reactor Institute Delft   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atmospheric biomonitoring; Confounding; Geographical epidemiology; Lichens; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DATA HANDLING; DEPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; WASTES;

ATMOSPHERIC BIOMONITORING; GEOGRAPHICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; LICHENS; NEOPLASMS;

ONCOLOGY;

CHEMICAL AGENT;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LICHEN; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANCER MORTALITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PORTUGAL;

AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LICHENS; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PORTUGAL; RISK FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38849103113     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.039     Document Type: Article

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