Associations between fine particle, coarse particle, black carbon and hospital visits in a Chinese city

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 458-460, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Wang, Xi ^a   Chen, Renjie ^a   Meng, Xia ^a   Geng, Fuhai ^b   Wang, Cuicui ^a   Kan, Haidong ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU   (China)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Coarse particle; Fine particle; Hospital visits

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BLACK CARBON; COARSE PARTICLES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; FINE PARTICLES; HOSPITAL VISITS; QUALITY INDICATORS;

AIR QUALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

HOSPITALS;

BLACK CARBON;

AIR QUALITY; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; MORBIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN AREA;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84877112149     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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