Influence of socioeconomic conditions on air pollution adverse health effects in elderly people: An analysis of six regions in São Paulo, Brazil

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-46

  Martins, M C H ^b   Fatigati, F L ^c   Vespoli T C ^d   Martins, L C ^e   Pereira, L A A ^e   Martins, M A ^e   Saldiva, P H N ^e   Braga, A L F ^a,f  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^b S Paulo City Health Departments   (Brazil)

^c S Paulo City Environ Departments   (Brazil)

^d S Paulo City Planning Departments   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SANTO AMARO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SALARY; SENESCENCE; WEATHER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BRAZIL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0346843112     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.58.1.41     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admissions for heart disease in eight US counties. Epidemiology 1999;1:17-22.
2. Bobak M, Leon DA. Air pollution and infant mortality in Czech Republic, 1986-88. Lancet 1992;340:1010-14.
3. Dockery DW, Pope AC 3rd, Xu X, et al. n association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. cities. N Engl J Med 1993;324:1753-9.
4. Wordley J, Walters S, Ayres JG. Short-term variations in hospital admissions and mortality and particulate air pollution. Occup Environ Med 1997;54:108-16.
5. Ostro B, Chestnut L, Vichit-Vadakan N, et al. The impact of particulate matter on daily mortality in Bangkok, Thailand. J Air Waste Manag Assoc 1999;49:100-7.
6. Ito K, Thurston GD. Daily PM10/mortality associations: a investigation of at-risk subpopulations. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 1996;6:79-95.
7. Conceição GMS, Miraglia SGEK, Kishi HS, et al. Air pollution and child mortality: a time-series study in São Paulo, Brazil. Environ Health Perspect 2001;109:347-50.
8. Saldiva PHN, Pope AC 3rd, Schwartz J, et al. ir pollution and mortality in elderly people: a time-series study in São Paulo, Brazil. Arch Environ Health 1995;50:159-63.
9. Sobral HR. Air pollution and respiratory diseases in children in São Paulo, Brazil. Soc Sci Med 1989;29:959-64.
10. Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. Race, gender, and social status as modifiers of the effects of PM10 on mortality. J Occup Environ Med 2000;42:469-74.
11. The American Lung Association. Urban air pollution and health inequalities: a workshop report. Environ Health Perspect 2001;103(suppl 3):357-74.
12. ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme. Environmental justice: rights and means to a healthy environment for all. Special briefing no 7. Brighton: University of Sussex, 2001.
13. Pereira PM, Saldiva PHN, Sakae RS, et al. Urban levels of air pollution increase lung responsiveness in rats. Environ Res 1995;69:96-101.
14. Lemos M, Lichtenfels AJFC, Amaro E jr, et al. Quantitative pathology of nasal passages in rats exposed to urban levels of air pollution. Environ Res 1992;66:87-95.
15. Saldiva PHN, Lichtenfels AJFC, Paiva PSO, et al. Association between air pollution and mortality due to respiratory diseases in children in São Paulo, Brazil: a preliminary report. Environ Res 1994;65:218-25.
16. Pereira LAA, Loomis D, Conceição GMS, et al. Association between air pollution and intrauterine mortality in São Paulo, Brazil. Environ Health Perspect 1998;106:325-9.
17. Lin CA, Martins AM, Farhat SC, et al. Air Pollution and respiratory illness of children in São Paulo, Brazil. Paedriatr Perinat Epidemiol 1999;13:475-88.
18. Braga ALF, Conceição GMS, Pereira LAA, et al. Air pollution and paediatric respiratory hospital admissions in São Paulo, Brazil. J Environ Med 1999;1:95-102.
19. Braga ALF, Saldiva PHN, Pereira LAA, et al. Heath effects of air pollution exposure on children and adolescents in São Paulo, Brazil. Pediatr Pulmonol 2001;31:106-13.
20. WHO. International classification of diseases, 10th revision. Vol 1. Geneva: World Health Organisation, 1993.
21. Gouveia N, Fletcher T. Time series analysis of air pollution and mortality: effects by cause, age and socioeconomic status. J Epidemiol Community Health 2000;54:750-5.
22. Drumond M Jr, Lira MMTA, Nitrini TMV, et al. Cardiovascular disease: some aspects of the filling out of the death certificate and the mortality profile in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. [In Portuguese]. Rev Soc Cardiol Estado de São Paulo 2001;1:191-202.
23. McCullagh P, Nelder JA. Generalized linear models, 2nd edn. London: Chapman and Hall, 1989.
24. Green PJ, Silverman BW. Nonparometric regression and generalized linear models. A roughness penalty approach. London: Chapman and Hall, 1994.
25. Brumback BA, Ryan LM, Schwartz J, et al. Transitional regression models with application to environmental time series. J Am Stat Assoc 2000;95:16-28.
26. Akaike H. Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principal. In: Petrov BN, Csaki F, eds. Second international symposium on information theory. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1973:267-81.
27. Braga ALF, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The effect of weather on respiratory and cardiovascular deaths in 12 US cities. Environ Health Perspect 2002;110:859-63.
28. Martins LC, Latorre MRDO, Saldiva PHN, et al. Air pollution and emergency room visits due to chronic lower respiratory diseases in the elderly: an ecological time-series study in São Paulo, Brazil. J Occup Environ Med 2002;44:622-7.
29. Braga ALF, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The lag structure between particulate air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular deaths in ten US cities. J Occup Environ Med 2001;43:927-33.
30. Hoek G, Brunekreef B, Goldbohm S, et al. Association between mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution in the Netherlands: a cohort study. Lancet 2002;360:1203-9.
31. Abbey DE, Nishino N, McDonnell WF, et al. Long-term inhalable particles and other air pollutants related to mortality in non-smokers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999;159:373-82.