منابع مشابه
Home Heating and Asthma in New Zealand
New Zealand has one of the highest asthma prevalence rates among developed countries and previous research attributes this partly to poor socioeconomic conditions and to insufficient home heating in particular. Retrospective empirical studies from overseas suggest that home heating is associated with asthma rates. However, the evidence to date is not conclusive. In this paper, I build a theoret...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.286.6362.374