Assessment and longitudinal analysis of health impacts and stressors perceived to result from unconventional shale gas development in the Marcellus Shale region

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 104-112

  Ferrar, Kyle J ^a   Kriesky, Jill ^a   Christen, Charles L ^a,b   Marshall, Lynne P ^a   Malone, Samantha L ^a   Sharma, Ravi K ^a   Michanowicz, Drew R ^a   Goldstein, Bernard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Pittsburgh AIDs Taskforce ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community impacts; Environmental health; Fracking; Health impacts; Health perceptions; High volume; Hydraulic fracturing; Marcellus shale; Mental health; Natural gas; NGD; Public health; Shale gas; Social impacts; Stressors; Symptoms; Unconventional natural gas development; UNGD

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; GAS, NATURAL; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877107677     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2049396713Y.0000000024     Document Type: Article

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