Ecological and human health risk aspects of burning arsenic-rich coal

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 239-243

  Bencko, Vladimír ^a   Rameš, Jiří ^a   Fabiánová, Eleonora ^b   Pešek, Jiří ^a   Jakubis, Marián ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b State Institute of Public Health Slovakia   (Slovakia)

^c Regional Institute of Public Health   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arsenic toxicity; Biological monitoring; Cancer epidemiology; Non melanoma skin cancer incidence; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; COAL;

ARSENIC; BIOMONITORING; BURNING; CANCER; COAL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EMISSION; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TUMOR; SLOVAKIA; TIME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; COAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POWER PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SLOVAKIA; TIME FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 64749108513     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-008-9224-3     Document Type: Article

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