Coal use, stove improvement, and adult pneumonia mortality in Xuanwei, China: A retrospective cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-266

  Shen, Min ^a   Chapman, Robert S ^b   Vermuelen, Roel ^c   Tian, Linwei ^d   Zheng, Tongzhang ^e   Chen, Bingshu E ^f   Engels, Eric A ^a   He, Xingzhou ^g   Blair, Aaron ^a   Lan, Qing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^g CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Coal; Cohort study; Indoor air pollution; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHINA; COAL POWER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ROOM VENTILATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; COAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 60749128137     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11521     Document Type: Article

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