Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries
Author(s) -
Otto Hänninen,
Anne Knol,
Matti Jantunen,
Tek-Ang Lim,
André Conrad,
Marianne Rappolder,
Paolo Carrer,
Annaclara Fanetti,
Rokho Kim,
Jurgen Buekers,
Rudi Torfs,
Ivano Iavarone,
Thomas Claßen,
Claudia Hornberg,
Odile Mekel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1206154
Subject(s) - environmental health , disability adjusted life year , public health , disease burden , environmental epidemiology , population , risk assessment , medicine , exposure assessment , environmental protection , geography , nursing , computer security , computer science
Environmental health effects vary considerably with regard to their severity, type of disease, and duration. Integrated measures of population health, such as environmental burden of disease (EBD), are useful for setting priorities in environmental health policies and research. This review is a summary of the full Environmental Burden of Disease in European countries (EBoDE) project report.
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