Mercury as a serious health hazard for children in gold mining areas

Environmental Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-97

  Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^a,b   Lettmeier, Beate ^a,b   Matteucci Gothe, Raffaella ^a   Beinhoff, Christian ^c   Siebert, Uwe ^a   Drasch, Gustav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Child labor; Children; Gold; Indonesia; Mercury; Mercury vapor; Small scale mining; Tanzania; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; GOLD; MERCURY;

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD LABOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPING WORLD; GOLD MINE; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; VAPORIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GOLD; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; MINING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

AFRICA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 41949111516     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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