The inadequate life: Rural industrial pollution and lay epidemiology in China

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 214, 2013, Pages 302-320

  Lora Wainwright, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activism; China; health effects; industrial pollution; lay epidemiology; popular epidemiology; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EFFECT; VILLAGE;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84879674050     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741013000349     Document Type: Article

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