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Document ID (ISN)63816
CIS number 95-239
ISSN - Serial title 0140-6736 - Lancet
Year 1994
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Malmberg P.
Title Coking to death?
Bibliographic information 3 Sep. 1994, Vol.344, No.8923. p.632. 4 ref.
Abstract This brief commentary considers the possible influence of awareness bias in the debate about the health hazards of living near coke ovens. In a dispute involving residents living near a coking works in the north east of England in the 1980s, while there was no hard evidence for an environmental impact on health, replies to questionnaires showed a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms near the coke works. Epidemiological methods need to be devised to study subtle health effects that remove any uncertainty about awareness bias.
Descriptors (primary) subjective assessment; coking plants; health hazards; atmospheric pollution
Descriptors (secondary) epidemiologic study; respiratory diseases
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceSweden
Subject(s) Environmental pollution
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Air pollution
Chemical industry
Environmental pollution