Tackling climate change close to home: Mobile breast screening as a model

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-167

  Bond, Alan ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a   Haynes, Robin ^a   Tam, Matthew ^b   Denton, Erika ^b   Ballantyne, Mandy ^b   Curtin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; TRAVEL; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 67650745610     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jhsrp.2009.008154     Document Type: Article

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