Environmental epidemiology applied to urban atmospheric pollution: a contribution from the Experimental Air Pollution Laboratory (LPAE)

Systematic investigation on the effects of human exposure to environmental pollution using scientific methodology only began in the 20th century as a consequence of several environmental accidents followed by an unexpected mortality increase above expected mortality and as a result of observational...

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Main Authors: Paulo Afonso de André, Alfésio Luis Ferreira Braga, Chin An Lin, Gleice Margarete de Souza Conceição, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Simone Georges El Khouri Miraglia, György Miklos Böhm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Series:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2000000300011&lng=en&tlng=en