Estimated health impact of a shift from light fuel to residential wood-burning in Upper Austria

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 339-343

  Haluza, Daniela ^a   Kaiser, August ^b   Moshammer, Hanns ^a   Flandorfer, Claudia ^b   Kundi, Michael ^a   Neuberger, Manfred ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

^b Central Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics   (Austria)

Author keywords

air pollution; biomass; domestic heating; health impact assessment; particulate matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEATING; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AUSTRIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEATING; HUMANS; WOOD;

EID: 84862566410     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2012.27     Document Type: Article

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