The burden of air pollution: impacts among racial minorities.

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Published in Environ Health Perspect on August 01, 2001

Authors

R C Gwynn1, G D Thurston

Author Affiliations

1: Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York 10987, USA.

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