Environmental Exposures and Child Health: What we Might Learn in the 21st Century from the National Children's Study?

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McElroy, Jane A ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

child health; environmental exposures; epidemiology; longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951724281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S1061     Document Type: Article

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