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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...
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. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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