Assessment of Environmental Impacts on Health: Examples from the Pacific Basin
By: Paul Jagals, Injeong Kim, Claire Brereton and Colleen L. Lau
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3671 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 16, 2021
Accepted on: Apr 17, 2022
Published on: Oct 21, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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