A retrospective approach to assess human health risks associated with growing air pollution in urbanized area of Thar Desert, western Rajasthan, India

Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rumana, Harcharan Singh ^a   Sharma, Ramesh Chandra ^a   Beniwal, Vikas ^b   Sharma, Anil Kumar ^b  

^a Desert Medicine Research Centre India   (India)

^b MAHARISHI MARKANDESHWAR DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Environmental disease burden; Human health

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN POLLUTION;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN; THAR DESERT;

EID: 84904652749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2052336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2052-336X-12-23     Document Type: Article

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