Environmental pollution, health, and development: a Lancet-Global Alliance on Health and Pollution-Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Commission

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10002, 2015, Pages 1429-1431

  Landrigan, Philip J ^a   Fuller, Richard ^b   Horton, Richard ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Global Alliance on Health and Pollution   (United States)

^c THE LANCET   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE; HUMAN; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POVERTY; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; POVERTY;

EID: 84944047612     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00426-2     Document Type: Note

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