Conducting environmental health research in the Arabian middle East: Lessons learned and opportunities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 632-636

  Yeatts, Karin B ^a   El Sadig, Mohamed ^b   Ali, Habiba I ^b   Al Maskari, Fatma ^b   Campbell, Alan ^a   Ng, Shu Wen ^a   Reeves, Lisa ^a   Chan, Ronna L ^a   Davidson, Christopher A ^c   Funk, William E ^d   Boundy, Maryanne G ^c   Leith, David ^c   Popkin, Barry ^a   Gibson, Jacqueline Macdonald ^c   Rusyn, Ivan ^c   Olshan, Andrew F ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental epidemiology; Indoor air; International issues; Policy; Population health

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ETHICS; EXPOSURE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STEREOTYPY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84861024182     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104031     Document Type: Article

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