CA Pope III, DW Dockery - Journal of the air & waste management …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Efforts to understand and mitigate the health effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution have a rich and interesting history. This review focuses on six substantial lines of research …
We present a comprehensive review of published results from the last 30 years regarding the sources and atmospheric characteristics of particles and ozone in the Metropolitan Area …
We carried out time-series analyses in 12 US cities to estimate both the acute effects and the lagged influence of weather on respiratory and cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths. We fit …
B Ostro, World Health Organization - 2004 - apps.who.int
The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed across different subpopulations (eg infants, women), are important pieces of information for defining …
AJ Cohen, HR Anderson, B Ostro, KD Pandey… - … quantification of health …, 2004 - JSTOR
Current scientific evidence, derived largely from studies in North America and Western Europe (NAWE), indicates that urban air pollution, 1 which is derived largely from …
S Mehta, H Shin, R Burnett, T North… - Air Quality, Atmosphere & …, 2013 - Springer
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) account for nearly one fifth of mortality in young children worldwide and have been associated with exposures to indoor and outdoor …
Objectives Air pollution is an important public health concern especially for children who are particularly susceptible. Latin America has a large children population, is highly urbanized …
K Ito, SF De Leon, M Lippmann - Epidemiology, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Background: There is ample evidence that short-term ozone exposure is associated with transient decrements in lung functions and increased respiratory symptoms, but the short …
Environmental air pollution is a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality worldwide. Environmental air pollution has a direct impact on human health, being responsible for an …