Arsenic-induced health crisis in peri-urban Moyna and Ardebok villages, West Bengal, India: An exposure assessment study

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 563-574

  Maity, Jyoti Prakash ^a,b   Nath, Bibhash ^c   Kar, Sandeep ^a   Chen, Chien Yen ^b   Banerjee, Satabdi ^d   Jean, Jiin Shuh ^a   Liu, Ming Yie ^a   Centeno, J A ^e   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^f   Chang, Christina L ^a   Santra, Subhas Chandra ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^e Joint Pathology Center   (United States)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arsenic exposure; Groundwater; Keratosis; Melanosis; Statistics; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; PERIURBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HAIR; HUMAN; INDIA; KERATOSIS; MALE; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL; SKIN DISEASE; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER; HAIR; HUMANS; INDIA; KERATOSIS; MALE; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84865424008     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-012-9458-y     Document Type: Article

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