Pesticides and human health

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-82

  Blair, Aaron ^a   Ritz, Beate ^b   Wesseling, Catharina ^c   Freeman, Laura Beane ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH; HUMANS; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84920746933     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102454     Document Type: Editorial

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