Green and blue spaces and behavioral development in barcelona schoolchildren: The BREATHE project

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1351-1358

  Amoly, Elmira ^a,b,c   Dadvand, Payam ^a,b,d   Forns, Joan ^a,b,d,e   López Vicente, Mónica ^a,b,d   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,b,d   Julvez, Jordi ^a,b,d   Alvarez Pedrerol, Mar ^a,b,d   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,d   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,d,f  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^f HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASHORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PLANT; RECREATION; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PLANTS; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOLS; SPAIN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84936803812     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408215     Document Type: Article

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