Measuring the health effects of air pollution: to what extent can we really say that people are dying from bad air?
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Invited commentary: air pollution and health-what can we learn from a hierarchical approach?
Received for publication June 27, 2001, and accepted for publication August 15, 2001. Abbreviations: NMMAPS, National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study; PM 10 , particulate matter ≤ 10 μm in diameter. From the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room E4138, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: [email protected])....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0095-0696
DOI: 10.1016/s0095-0696(03)00075-5