Impact of the China Healthy Cities Initiative on Urban Environment

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 149-157

  Yue, Dahai ^a,b   Ruan, Shiman ^c,d   Xu, Jin ^a,e   Zhu, Weiming ^a   Zhang, Luyu ^a   Cheng, Gang ^a   Meng, Qingyue ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China Healthy Cities; Inter sector collaboration; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHINA; CITY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; PLANT; POLICY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PLANTS; POLICY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 85007488466     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-016-0106-1     Document Type: Article

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