Linkage of national soil quality measurements to primary care medical records in England and Wales: a new resource for investigating environmental impacts on human health
Abstract Background Long-term, low-level exposure to toxic elements in soil may be harmful to human health but large longitudinal cohort studies with sufficient follow-up time to study these effects are cost-prohibitive and impractical. Linkage of routinely collected medical outcome data to systemat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-018-0168-2 |