Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures: Causal Thinking in Global Environmental Epidemiology

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-9

  Sly, Peter D ^a   Carpenter, David O ^b   Van den Berg, Martin ^c   Stein, Renato T ^d   Landrigan, Philip J ^e   Brune Drisse, Marie Noel ^f   Suk, William ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

burden of disease; children; non communicable disease; pollution; public health

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRUG ABUSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; DISABLED PERSON; GLOBAL HEALTH;

DISABLED PERSONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84991738166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.004     Document Type: Review

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