Exposure to second-hand smoke in primary health care centres in Catalonia, Spain (2006)

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 775-778

  Fu, Marcela ^a,b   Valverde, Araceli ^c   Ortega, Guadalupe ^c   López, María J ^d,e,f   Martínez Sánchez, Jose M ^a,g   Martín, Carlos ^f,h   Martínez, Cristina ^a   Saltó, Esteve ^b,c   Fernández, Esteve ^a,b  

^a BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Generalitat de Catalunya ^*  (Spain)

^d Evaluation and Intervention Methods Unit   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^h INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Nicotine; Passive smoking; Primary health care; Tobacco smoke pollution

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMOKE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPAIN; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 67649599135     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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