Pollution sources and mortality rates across rural-urban areas in the United States

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 383-391

  Hendryx, Michael ^a   Fedorko, Evan ^a   Halverson, Joel ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Health disparities; Mortality; Pollution; Rural

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORALS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 77957293474     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2010.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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