The imperial county community air monitoring network: A model for community-based environmental monitoring for public health action

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  English, Paul B ^a   Olmedo, Luis ^b   Bejarano, Ester ^b   Lugo, Humberto ^b   Murillo, Eduardo ^b   Seto, Edmund ^c   Wong, Michelle ^d   King, Galatea ^d   Wilkie, Alexa ^d   Meltzer, Dan ^d   Carvlin, Graeme ^c   Jerrett, Michael ^e   Northcross, Amanda ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Comite Civico Del Valle ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85032826548     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP1772     Document Type: Article

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