Workers: The climate canaries

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1799-1801

  Roelofs, Cora ^a   Wegman, David ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907221194     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302145     Document Type: Review

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