Indoor Air Pollution Attributed to Solid Fuel Use for Heating and Cooking and Cancer Risk

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 198-200

  Hosgood, H D ^a   Lan, Q ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Biomass; Cancer; China; Coal; Cooking; Fuel use; Indoor; Intervention; Lung; Risk factor; Solid fuel; Stove; Wood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925964670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00579-1     Document Type: Chapter

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