Psychosocial and health impacts of uranium mining and milling on navajo lands

Health Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 618-625

  Dawson, Susan E ^a   Madsen, Gary E ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; tailings, uranium; uranium; uranium mines

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LUNG TUMOR; MENTAL STRESS; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RADIATION INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RADIATION INJURIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URANIUM;

CLUSIA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 80053981812     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3182243a7a     Document Type: Article

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