Personal exposure assessment studies may suffer from exposure-relevant selection bias

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-266

  Oglesby, Lucy ^a   Rotko, Tuulia ^b   Krütli, Pius ^a   Boudet, Céline ^c   Kruize, Hanneke ^d   Jantunen, Matti J ^b   Künzli, Nino ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Exposure assessment; Non respondents; Risk assessment; Selection bias; Target population

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; TRAFFIC;

EID: 0033910995     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500088     Document Type: Article

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