Environmental ecological modeling of human blood lead levels in East Asia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2856-2862

  Niisoe, Tamon ^a   Harada, Kouji H ^a   Hitomi, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Takao ^b   Hung, Nguyen Ngoc ^c   Ishikawa, Hirohiko ^a   Wang, Zifa ^d   Koizumi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC LEAD; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGY STATISTICS; ERROR FACTORS; FEMALE ADULTS; HUMAN BLOODS; LEAD EMISSION; LEADED GASOLINE; LONG-TERM TREND; MODEL RESULTS; VIET NAM;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BLOOD; ECOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; GASOLINE; LEAD;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LEAD; PROBABILITY;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BLOOD; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ATMOSPHERE; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LEAD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; VIETNAM;

EID: 79953246895     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103666e     Document Type: Article

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