Air pollution and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases in the subequatorial amazon: A time series approach;Poluição do ar e admissões hospitalares por doenças respiratórias na amazônia subequatorial: Abordagem de séries temporais

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 747-761

  Ignotti, Eliane ^a,b   Hacon, Sandra de Souza ^c   Junger, Washington Leite ^d   Mourão, Dennys ^c   Longo, Karla ^e   Freitas, Saulo ^e   Artaxo, Paulo ^f   de Leon, Antônio Carlos Monteiro Ponce ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Hospitalization; Respiratory tract diseases

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953597032     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2010000400017     Document Type: Article

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