Child health and the environment: Where next with birth cohort research?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 663-664

  Vrijheid, Martine ^a  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; MERCURY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIRTH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NOISE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTANT; CHILD WELFARE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84907207948     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101942     Document Type: Editorial

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