Years of life lost attributable to air pollution in Switzerland: Dynamic exposure-response model

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1029-1035

  Röösli, Martin ^a   Künzli, Nino ^b   Braun Fahrländer, Charlotte ^c   Egger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cohort studies; Impact assessment; Meta analysis; Years of life lost

Indexed keywords

COAL; STEEL;

AIR QUALITY; MORTALITY; POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND; TIME;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 27544467791     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi106     Document Type: Article

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