Prioritizing environmental issues around the world: opinions from an international central and Eastern European environmental health conference.(Commentary) From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Anderson, Beth; Bruce, Erica; Craft, Elena S.; Donnelly, Kirby C.; Gyorffy, Erika; Kim, David; McCarty, Kathleen M.; Neamtiu, Iulia; Surkova, Irina; Tesarova, Eva; Uhnakova, Iveta | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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