Community-led assessment of risk from exposure to mercury by native Amerindian Wayana in southeast Suriname

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Peplow, Daniel ^a,b   Augustine, Sarah ^a  

^a Suriname Indigenous Health Fund International Humanities Center ^*  (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RISK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SURINAME; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR; MERCURIALISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INFANT; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURINAME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855264163     PISSN: 16879805     EISSN: 16879813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/674596     Document Type: Article

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