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Procedures for identifying contaminated sites and soils that pose potential health risks.
In response to public health crises in recent years, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) and some of its local branches, the Interregional Epidemiology Units...
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Commentary. Urban Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Stockholm. Special Issue. Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution: European Studies
This article is a commentary on a study published in the journal *Epidemiology* 2000;11(5):487-95. While the causal relationship between air pollution and lung cancer is now well...
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Commentary. Road traffic pollutants affect male fertility. Special Issue. Air Pollution and Reproduction
This article is a commentary on a study published in the journal Hum Reprod 2003;18:1055-61. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of continuous exposure to traffic pollution on...
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Dioxin exposure among people living near municipal waste incinerators in France
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Study of dioxin exposure among residents living near municipal waste incineration plants
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Commented analysis. Links between particulate matter pollution and mortality in the American Cancer Society cohort: reanalysis of the original results and additional analyses. Special issue. Long-term effects of air pollution: North American studies
This article is a commentary on the following three studies: Pope CA 3rd, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Ito K, Thurston GD. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and...
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Commented analysis. Urban air pollution and its association with mortality and the incidence of lung cancer in a cohort of 6,209 Norwegians followed for 27 years. Special issue. Long-term effects of air pollution: European studies
This article is a commentary on the following two studies: Nafstad P, Haheim LL, Wisloff T, Gram F, Oftedal B, Holme I, Hjermann I, Leren P. Urban air pollution and mortality in a cohort...
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Incinerators and Health: A Guide on How to Respond to Local Requests for Health Investigations Regarding a Household Waste Incinerator
In France, 11.4 million tons of household and similar waste were incinerated in 2000. The fleet of incinerators, which currently comprises 123 units compliant with the decree of January...
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Incinerators and Health. Dioxin Exposure Among Residents Living Near Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators. Current State of Knowledge and Protocol for an Exposure Study
For several years now, dioxins—ubiquitous, highly stable pollutants found in the food chain—have been the focus of sustained attention from stakeholders in waste management, the general...
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