Taking your child's breath away - The extension of asthma's global reach

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1211-1213

  Mantzouranis, Eva C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 40949149829     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0708621     Document Type: Article

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