Proximity to mining industry and cancer mortality

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 435-436, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-73

  Fernández Navarro, Pablo ^a,b   García Pérez, Javier ^a,b   Ramis, Rebeca ^a,b,c   Boldo, Elena ^a,b   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a,b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register; INLA; Mining industry

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BLADDER CANCERS; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COAL MINING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; CREDIBLE INTERVAL; EXTRACTION METHOD; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INLA; INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL DIRECTIVES; LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; LIVER CANCERS; LUNG CANCER; OPEN-CAST MINING; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; POLLUTANT RELEASE AND TRANSFER REGISTERS; POLLUTION SOURCES; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RELATIVE RISKS; STOMACH CANCER; STRATIFIED ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCERS; TOXIC SUBSTANCES; UNDERGROUND MINING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COAL MINES; INFERENCE ENGINES; MINERAL INDUSTRY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

CANCER; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; MINING INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COAL MINING; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MINING; MYELOMA; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

SPAIN;

POECILIA;

EID: 84864416528     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.019     Document Type: Article

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