Asbestos: Use, Bans and disease burden in Europe;Amiante: utilisation, interdictions et charge de morbidité en Europe;Amianto: uso, prohibiciones y carga de morbilidad en Europa

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 790-797

  Kameda, Takashi ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Kim, Rokho ^b   Jiang, Ying ^a   Movahed, Mehrnoosh ^a   Park, Eun Kee ^c   Rantanen, Jorma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Western Pacific Region Pacific Secretariat   (Fiji)

^c Kosin University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOS; CANCER; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; SOLID TUMOR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE;

EUROPE;

ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84908406980     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.132118     Document Type: Article

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