Health and the environment with focus on the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL, 2009, Pages

  Abouzaid, Houssain ^a  

^a WHO Representative ^*  (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AIR POLLUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISASTER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMERGENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SANITATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, NORTHERN; AIR POLLUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EMERGENCIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84875158353     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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