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Document ID (ISN)25267
CIS number 76-1195
ISBN(s) 90-219-4036-1
Year 1975
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Ashby E., Wood J.C., Kirov N.Y., Derban L.K.A., Bavandi M., Ramalingaswami V., Phoon W.O., Sakabe H., El Batawi M.A., Illich I., Papanek V., Challis E.J., Jones W.T., Mars G.
Ciba Foundation, London, United Kingdom.
Title Health and industrial growth.
Bibliographic information Symposium 32 (new series), Associated Scientific Publishers, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 1975. 267p. Illus. 154 ref.
Abstract Papers presented at an international symposium on second-order effects of industrial growth on human health, held in London, United Kingdom, 11-13 Sep. 1974. Topics covered include: pollution control in Great Britain; legislative protection of health at work; aid to developing countries; health problems associated with industrialisation in Ghana, India, South-East Asia, Japan; nutrition; health of workers in industrialising societies; industrialisation of medicine; socio-environmental consequences of design; social problems; individual and public responses in public health matters; and an anthropological approach to health problems in developing countries. The discussions are appended.
Descriptors (primary) occupational hygiene; technical development; environmental pollution; pollution control
Descriptors (secondary) India; airborne dust; Japan; social aspects; legislation; conference; developing countries; United Kingdom
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Generalities
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Pollution control
Environmental pollution