Environmental Equity Research: Review with Focus on Outdoor Air Pollution Research Methods and Analytic Tools

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-55

  Miao, Qun ^a,b   Chen, Dongmei ^a   Buzzelli, Michael ^c   Aronson, Kristan J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

air pollution; environmental equity; ethnicity; geographic information systems (GIS); socioeconomic status (SES)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL FALLACY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; TAX; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84924924752     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: 21544700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2014.904266     Document Type: Article

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