Climate change, tropospheric ozone and particulate matter, and health impacts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1449-1455

  Ebi, Kristie L ^a   McGregor, Glenn ^b  

^a ESS LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Climate change; Health impacts; Ozone; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIRFLOW; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE GAS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPOSPHERE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE;

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 56349150418     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11463     Document Type: Review

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