Smog episodes, fine particulate pollution and mortality in China

Environmental Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 396-404

  Zhou, Maigeng ^a   He, Guojun ^b   Fan, Maoyong ^c   Wang, Zhaoxi ^d   Liu, Yang ^e   Ma, Jing ^d,f   Ma, Zongwei ^e   Liu, Jiangmei ^a   Liu, Yunning ^a   Wang, Linhong ^a   Liu, Yuanli ^d,g  

^a National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient fine particulate; Beijing air pollution; Mortality; Smog episode

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SMOG; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SMOG; URBAN AREA; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; HEBEI; TIANJIN;

PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOG;

CHINA; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOG;

EID: 84911894145     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.09.038     Document Type: Article

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