Once upon a mine: The legacy of uranium on the Navajo Nation

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Arnold, Carrie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; URANIUM; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCOME; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG CANCER; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; TOXICOLOGY; URANIUM MINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; HISTORY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MINING; NOTE; POLLUTANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; NEW MEXICO; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; URANIUM;

EID: 84893425778     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A44     Document Type: Article

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