The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The Lancet Planetary Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2019, Pages e26-e39

  Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a   Dey, Sagnik ^a   Gupta, Tarun ^a   Dhaliwal, R S ^a   Brauer, Michael ^a   Cohen, Aaron J ^a   Stanaway, Jeffrey D ^a   Beig, Gufran ^a   Joshi, Tushar K ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Sabde, Yogesh ^a   Sadhu, Harsiddha ^a   Frostad, Joseph ^a   Causey, Kate ^a   Godwin, William ^a   Shukla, D K ^a   Kumar, G Anil ^a   Varghese, Chris M ^a   Muraleedharan, Pallavi ^a   Agrawal, Anurag ^a   Anjana, R M ^a   Bhansali, Anil ^a   Bhardwaj, Deeksha ^a   Burkart, Katrin ^a   Cercy, Kelly ^a   Chakma, Joy K ^a   Chowdhury, Sourangsu ^a   Christopher, D J ^a   Dutta, Eliza ^a   Furtado, Melissa ^a   Ghosh, Santu ^a   Ghoshal, Aloke G ^a   Glenn, Scott D ^a   Guleria, Randeep ^a   Gupta, Rajeev ^a   Jeemon, Panniyammakal ^a   Kant, Rajni ^a   Kant, Surya ^a   Kaur, Tanvir ^a   Koul, Parvaiz A ^a   Krish, Varsha ^a   Krishna, Bhargav ^a   Larson, Samantha L ^a   Madhipatla, Kishore ^a   Mahesh, P A ^a   Mohan, Viswanathan ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Satinath ^a   Mutreja, Parul ^a   Naik, Nitish ^a   Nair, Sanjeev ^a   Nguyen, Grant ^a   Odell, Christopher M ^a   Pandian, Jeyaraj D ^a   Prabhakaran, Dorairaj ^a   Prabhakaran, Poornima ^a   Roy, Ambuj ^a   Salvi, Sundeep ^a   Sambandam, Sankar ^a   Saraf, Deepika ^a   Sharma, Meenakshi ^a   Shrivastava, Aakash ^a   Singh, Virendra ^a   Tandon, Nikhil ^a   Thomas, Nihal J ^a   Torre, Anna ^a   Xavier, Denis ^a   Yadav, Geetika ^a   Singh, Sujeet ^a   Shekhar, Chander ^a   Vos, Theo ^a   Dandona, Rakhi ^a   Reddy, K Srinath ^a   Lim, Stephen S ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Venkatesh, S ^a   Dandona, Lalit ^a   more..

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETER); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DISEASE BURDEN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND STUDY; ADVERSE EVENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN;

H 0294; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

AIR POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE; INDIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 85059824831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25425196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30261-4     Document Type: Article

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