The JPC-SE position statement on asbestos: A long-overdue appeal by epidemiologists to ban asbestos worldwide and end related global environmental injustice

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Al Delaimy, Wael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

AWARENESS; CARCINOGENICITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LAW; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING;

ASBESTOS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84877054557     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306892     Document Type: Editorial

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