WHO IAQ Guidelines: household fuel combustion. Review 8: Health effects of coal

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  • Xiaoli Duan
  • Junfeng Zhang
  • Heather Adair-Rohani
  • Nigel Bruce
  • Henock Solomon
  • Kirk R. Smith
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1 State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China 2 Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 3 World Health Organization, Public Health, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, Interventions for Healthy Environments, Geneva, Switzerland 4 Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 5 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 6 Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA

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تاریخ انتشار 2014