Addressing the burden of disease attributable to air pollution in India: The need to integrate across household and ambient air pollution exposures

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a   Cohen, Aaron ^b   Smith, Kirk R ^c  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Health Effects Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COOKING; EDITORIAL; EXHAUST GAS; EXPOSURE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 84891539985     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307822     Document Type: Editorial

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