The clean air act: Science, policy, and politics

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-2

  Huang, Yuh Chin T ^a   Brook, Robert D ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACT; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLEAR AIR ACT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST CONTROL; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960400014     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-1018     Document Type: Editorial

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