Air pollution, health, and human rights

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 98-100

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a   Gruskin, Sofia ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CANCER RISK; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCOME; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; WELLBEING; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST;

ASTHMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84922042487     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70145-6     Document Type: Note

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