The Small Area Health Statistics Unit: a national facility for investigating health around point sources of environmental pollution in the United Kingdom.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on August 01, 1992

Authors

P Elliott1, A J Westlake, M Hills, I Kleinschmidt, L Rodrigues, P McGale, K Marshall, G Rose

Author Affiliations

1: Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

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