Short-term and medium-term health effects of 9/11

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9794, 2011, Pages 925-934

  Perlman, Sharon E ^a   Friedman, Stephen ^a   Galea, Sandro ^b   Nair, Hemanth P ^a   Ers Sarnyai, Monika ^a   Stellman, Steven D ^a,b   Hon, Jeffrey ^a   Greene, Carolyn M ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ASTHMA; CANNABIS SMOKING; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; FIRE FIGHTER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH; HUMAN; INJURY; LARYNGITIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MASS DISASTER; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SINUS CONGESTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SORE THROAT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; WHEEZING;

EID: 80052443493     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60967-7     Document Type: Review

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