Worldwide associations between air quality and health end-points: Are they meaningful?

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 716-721

  Wallner, Peter ^a   Hutter, Hans Peter ^a   Moshammer, Hanns ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Air quality; Cancer; Ecological study; Environmental health; Teaching; WHO

Indexed keywords

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICIANS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84909988472     PISSN: 12321087     EISSN: 1896494X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13382-014-0305-5     Document Type: Article

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