Assessing public health burden associated with exposure to ambient black carbon in the United States

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 539, Issue , 2016, Pages 515-525

  Li, Ying ^a   Henze, Daven K ^b   Jack, Darby ^c   Henderson, Barron H ^d   Kinney, Patrick L ^c  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Black carbon; Mortality; Public health burden

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; BLACK CARBON; BLACK CARBON EMISSION; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; MORTALITY; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

HEALTH RISKS;

BLACK CARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; SOOT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON EMISSION; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOOT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOOT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941750071     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.129     Document Type: Article

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