Impact of Traffic-Related air pollution on health

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 834, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-29

  Jakubiak Lasocka, J ^a   Lasocki, J ^a   Siekmeier, R ^b   Chlopek Z ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Health impact assessment; Particulate matter; Road transport; Social costs

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLAND; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COST OF ILLNESS; TOXICITY;

EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84914703195     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/5584_2014_14     Document Type: Article

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