- Bib ID:
- 165167
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Health and Medical Research Council, 1997
- x, 192 p. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642272700
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- Reasons for this review
- Process of the review
- Methods
- Structure of the information paper
- 2. The nature and assessment of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
- The nature of the exposure
- Assessment of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
- Biases in the assessment of exposure
- Prevalence of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Australia
- 3. Effects in pregnancy and childhood
- Intra-uterine exposure to maternal smoking and environmental tobacco smoke
- Asthma
- Lower respiratory illness
- Lung function
- Bronchial hyper-responsiveness
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Middle ear disease
- Contribution of passive smoking to asthma and lower respiratory illness in children
- 4. Passive smoking and adult respiratory disease
- The upper respiratory tract and eyes
- The lower respiratory tract
- 5. Passive smoking and cancer
- Types of epidemiological evidence
- Lung cancer
- Evaluation of the evidence
- Adult cancers other than lung cancer
- Cancers in children
- Contribution of passive smoking to lung cancer
- 6. Passive smoking and cardiovascular disease
- Aggraviation of existing symptoms
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Stroke
- All casues of death combined
- Evaluation of the evidence
- Contribution of passive smoking to ischaemic heart disease
- appendix 1. Methodology for estimations of contributions of passive smoking to illness
- appendix 2. Exposure to tobacco smoking. th.
- Notes:
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- "November 1997".
- Includes bibliographies.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
- Copyright:
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