Evaluation of interventions to reduce air pollution from biomass smoke on mortality in Launceston, Australia: Retrospective analysis of daily mortality, 1994-2007

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7890, 2013, Pages

  Johnston, Fay H ^a   Hanigan, Ivan C ^b,c   Henderson, Sarah B ^d   Morgan, Geoffrey G ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d British Colombia Centre for Disease Control   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^f Northern New South Wales Local Health District   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872292497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8446     Document Type: Article

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