Health impact assessment of particulate pollution in Tallinn using fine spatial resolution and modeling techniques

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Orru, Hans ^a,b   Teinemaa, Erik ^c   Lai, Taavi ^a   Tamm, Tanel ^a   Kaasik, Marko ^a   Kimmel, Veljo ^d   Kangur, Kati ^e   Merisalu, Eda ^a   Forsberg, Bertil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Eesti Keskkonnauuringute Keskus   (Estonia)

^d ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTONIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; AIR POLLUTANT; CITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTONIA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 63149084006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-8-7     Document Type: Article

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