Evolution in environmental health: Incorporating the infectious disease paradigm

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Birnbaum, Linda S ^a   Jung, Paul ^b  

^a NIEHS and NTP ^*

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; CHLORPHENOTANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ATMOSPHERE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FUNDING; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER CANCER; MALARIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE;

EID: 77956090909     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002661     Document Type: Editorial

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