A rating scale for housing-based health hazards

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 5423-5431

  Nriagu, Jerome ^a   Smith, Pamela ^a,b   Socier, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease burden; Electrical hazards; Fire hazards; Housing based hazards; Moisture and mold hazards; Structural hazards

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; DISEASE SYMPTOMS; ELECTRICAL HAZARDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD INDICES; HEALTH IMPACT; HOUSING-BASED HAZARDS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MICHIGAN; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURAL HAZARDS; STUDY DESIGN;

ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; FIRE HAZARDS; HOUSING; RATING;

HEALTH HAZARDS;

DISEASE; FIRE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING BASED HAZARD INDEX; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; LEAD POISONING; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MOISTURE; MOULD; PET ANIMAL; PLAGUE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY;

CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054716481     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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