Crumbling infrastructure and learning impairment: A call for responsibility

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2016, Pages A79-

  Levin, D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LEAD;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DEMOGRAPHY; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; LEAD; LEARNING DISORDERS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84964827619     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP69     Document Type: Editorial

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