Policies to clean up toxic industrial contaminated sites of Gela and Priolo: A cost-benefit analysis

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Guerriero, Carla ^a   Bianchi, Fabrizio ^b   Cairns, John ^a   Cori, Liliana ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MONETARY POLICY; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGULATORY APPROACH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; ITALY; MALE; NEOPLASM; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MORTALITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CALTANISSETTA; GELA; ITALY; PRIOLO GARGALLO; SICILY; SIRACUSA;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICILY;

EID: 79960656953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-68     Document Type: Article

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