Relationship between air pollution,weather, traffic, and traffic-related mortality

Trauma Monthly

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Dastoorpoor, Maryam ^a   Idani, Esmaeil ^b   Khanjani, Narges ^c   Goudarzi, Gholamreza ^b   Abbas Bahrampour, ^d  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air Pollution; Mortality; Traffic Accidents; Weather

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY; WEATHER;

EID: 84989820250     PISSN: 22517464     EISSN: 22517472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/traumamon.37585     Document Type: Article

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