Saharan dust clouds and human health in the English-speaking Caribbean: What we know and don't know

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 339-343

  Monteil, Michele A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Accident Emergency; Asthma; Barbados; Caribbean; Saharan dust clouds; Trinidad Tobago

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DUST; HEALTH IMPACT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT;

AFRICA; AIR; BARBADOS; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DUST; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AIR MOVEMENTS; BARBADOS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DUST; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; WEST INDIES;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 46649102044     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-008-9162-0     Document Type: Review

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