The impacts of the built environment on health outcomes

Facilities

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 138-151

  Codinhoto, Ricardo ^a   Tzortzopoulos, Patricia ^a   Kagioglou, Mike ^a   Aouad, Ghassan ^a   Cooper, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Environmental health and safety; Environmental psychology; Facilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350072099     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632770910933152     Document Type: Article

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