China tackles the health eff ects of air pollution

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9909, 2013, Pages 1959-1960

  Chen, Zhu ^a   Wang, Jin Nan ^b   Ma, Guo Xia ^b   Zhang, Yan Shen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HAZE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLICY; POLLUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84890236403     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62064-4     Document Type: Note

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