Economic evaluation of the air pollution effect on public health in China’s 74 cities

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Li, Li ^a,b   Lei, Yalin ^a,b   Pan, Dongyan ^c   Yu, Chen ^a,b   Si, Chunyan ^a,b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b China University of Geosciences Beijing)   (China)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

74 cities; Air pollution; China; The economic loss; The public health effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962376544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2024-9     Document Type: Article

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