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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Main Authors: Jack E. Gibson, E. Louise Ander, Mark Cave, Fiona Bath-Hextall, Anwar Musah, Jo Leonardi-Bee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-018-0168-2