Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures: Changing Global Patterns of Exposure and Disease

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 10-19

  Landrigan, Philip J ^a   Sly, J Leith ^b   Ruchirawat, Mathuros ^c   Silva, Emerson R ^d   Huo, Xia ^e   Diaz Barriga, Fernando ^f   Zar, Heather J ^g   King, Malcolm ^h   Ha, Eun Hee ⁱ   Asante, Kwadwo Ansong ^j   Ahanchian, Hamid ^k   Sly, Peter D ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CHULABHORN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^f UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^j CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^k MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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Author keywords

children; low and middle income countries; non communicable disease; pollution; publich health

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COUNTRY ECONOMIC STATUS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GLOBAL HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84991728240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.005     Document Type: Review

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