Association between airborne PM2.5 chemical constituents and birth weight - Implication of buffer exposure assignment

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Ebisu, Keita ^a   Belanger, Kathleen ^b   Bell, Michelle L ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; environmental epidemiology; environmental health; low birth weight; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5); LOW BIRTH WEIGHTS; PM2.5; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS;

POLLUTION;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WEIGHT;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907889971     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084007     Document Type: Article

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