"Air pollution is bad for my health": Hungarian children's knowledge of the role of environment in health and disease

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-246

  Pluhar, Zsuzsanna F ^a   Piko, Bettina F ^a   Kovacs, Szilvia ^b   Uzzoli, Annamaria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Buda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Children; Draw and write method; Environmental factors; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NOISE POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SMOKING;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 54549122511     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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