Estimation of incidence and social cost of colon cancer due to nitrate in drinking water in the EU: A tentative cost-benefit assessment

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Van Grinsven, Hans Jm ^a   Rabl, Ari ^b   De Kok, Theo M ^c  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FERTILIZER; NITRATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CANCER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; FERTILIZER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MEAT; NITRATE; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; LEACHING; NITROGEN CYCLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WELFARE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLON TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; DIET; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; INCIDENCE; MEAT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FERTILIZERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEAT; NITRATES; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77957299673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-58     Document Type: Article

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