Assessing correlations between geological hazards and health outcomes: Addressing complexity in medical geology
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Assessing correlations between geological hazards and health outcomes: Addressing complexity in medical geology.
BACKGROUND The field of medical geology addresses the relationships between exposure to specific geological characteristics and the development of a range of health problems: for example, long-term exposure to arsenic in drinking water can result in the development of skin conditions and cancers. While these relationships are well characterised for some examples, in others there is a lack of un...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environment International
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0160-4120
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.07.016