Drought impacts on children's respiratory health in the Brazilian Amazon

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Smith, Lauren T ^a   Aragão, Luiz E O C ^a,d   Sabel, Clive E ^b   Nakaya, Tomoki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84892685572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03726     Document Type: Article

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