International year of planet earth 2. earth and health - Building a safer canadian environment

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 61-72

  Rasmussen, Pat E ^a   Gardner, H D ^b  

^a Health Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINANTS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BIOMAGNIFICATION; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FIRE DEBRIS; GEOCHEMICAL HAZARD; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GEOSCIENCES; HEALTH RESEARCH; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; LAKE SAND RESERVOIRS; NATURAL SOURCES; PLANET EARTH; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; REMOTE SETTINGS; URBAN GEOCHEMISTRY; VOLCANIC ASH; WIND-BLOWN DUST;

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; DEBRIS; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); RADON; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SELENIUM; VOLCANOES;

HEALTH RISKS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOACCUMULATION; CRETACEOUS; EARTH SCIENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; MEDICAL GEOLOGY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINERALOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADON; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; SELENIUM; VOLCANIC ASH;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349623209     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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