Association between residential proximity to fuel-fired power plants and hospitalization rate for respiratory diseases

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 807-810

  Liu, Xiaopeng ^a   Lessner, Lawrence ^b   Carpenter, David O ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; COPD; Particulates; Respiratory infection; SO2

Indexed keywords

FUEL; VOLATILE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTANTS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOSSIL FUELS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NEW YORK; POWER PLANTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84862007376     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104146     Document Type: Article

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