Air Pollution and Emergency Department Visits for Depression: A Multicity Case-Crossover Study

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Szyszkowicz, Mieczysław ^a   Kousha, Termeh ^b   Kingsbury, Mila ^b   Colman, Ian ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

air pollution; case crossover; depression; emergency department visit; multicity study; substance abuse; suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028761994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S40493     Document Type: Article

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