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Daily visibility and mortality: Assessment of health benefits from improved visibility in Hong Kong

Visibility in Hong Kong has deteriorated significantly over 40 years with visibility below 8 km in the absence of fog, mist, or precipitation, increasing from 6.6 days in 1968 to 54.1 days in 2007. We assessed the short-term mortality effects of daily loss of visibility. During 1996–2006, we obtaine...

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Autores principales: Thach, Thuan-Quoc, Wong, Chit-Ming, Chan, King-Pan, Chau, Yuen-Kwan, Chung, Yat-Nork, Ou, Chun-Quan, Yang, Lin, Hedley, Anthony J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20627276
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2010.05.005