Recessions and health: The impact of economic trends on air pollution in California

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1951-1956

  Davis, Mary E ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84866309716     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300658     Document Type: Article

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