Public’s health risk awareness on urban air pollution in Chinese megacities: The cases of Shanghai, Wuhan and Nanchang

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Xiaojun ^a   Zhu, Hui ^a   Hu, Yongxin ^a   Feng, Sha ^b   Chu, Yuanyuan ^c   Wu, Yanyan ^d   Wang, Chiyu ^d   Zhang, Yuxuan ^d   Yuan, Zhaokang ^a   Lu, Yuanan ^a,d  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese megacities; Health risk awareness; Public concern; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MEGACITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN POLLUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRING; SUMMER; URBAN AREA; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CITY; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; HUBEI; JIANGXI; NANCHANG; SHANGHAI; WUHAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AWARENESS; CHINA; CITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983452628     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13090845     Document Type: Article

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