Strategies for addressing global environmental health concerns

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1140, Issue , 2008, Pages 40-44

  Suk, William A ^a   Davis, E Ann ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Data sharing; Environmental exposure; Environmental health; Environmental threats; Global environmental health network; Global health; Partnership; Poverty; Research collaboration

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POVERTY;

EID: 54949116927     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1454.046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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