Estimating causal effects of long-term PM2.5 exposure on mortality in New Jersey

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1182-1188

  Wang, Yan ^a   Kloog, Itai ^b   Coull, Brent A ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WINTER; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEW JERSEY; SEASON; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NEW JERSEY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84980350923     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409671     Document Type: Article

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