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Living in the Clean, Stress-Free and Quiet Countryside: Does the Reality Match the Dream? Residential Exposure to Environmental Health Stressors in the Danish Countryside

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Blanes-Vidal, V. Living in the Clean, Stress-Free and Quiet Countryside: Does the Reality Match the Dream? Residential Exposure to Environmental Health Stressors in the Danish Countryside. Hum Ecol 45, 545–552 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9925-2

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