The relationships between short-term exposure to particulate matter and mortality in Korea: Impact of particulate matter exposure metrics for sub-daily exposures

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Son, Ji Young ^a   Bell, Michelle L ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

exposure timeframes; mortality; sub daily averaging times; time series

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING TIME; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL RESEARCHES; EXPOSURE TIMEFRAMES; MORTALITY; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON RATIO; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

KOREA;

EID: 84876177556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014015     Document Type: Article

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