Status and solutions: Environment contamination and public health problems in a mining town, south China

2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4650-4653

  Zhang, Xin Ying ^a   Hu, Bo ^a   Wei, Ke Bo ^b   Zhao, Cai Liu ^c   Tang, Xiao Lan ^b  

^a GUANGXI TEACHERS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Environmental Science Institute of Guangxi Hechi   (China)

Author keywords

Dachang town; Guangxi Hechi; Mining area; Public health; Risk assessment; Risk management

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTAMINATION; HEALTH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MINING; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

DACHANG TOWN; GUANGXI HECHI; MINING AREA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 50949089896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2008.321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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