Geographies of uncertainty in the health benefits of air quality improvements

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 511-522

  Jerrett, M ^a   Newbold, K B ^b   Burnett, R T ^c   Thurston, G ^d   Lall, R ^d   Pope III, C A ^e   Ma, R ^f   De Luca, P ^b   Thun, M ^g   Calle, J ^g   Krewski, D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^g AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Fine particulate matter; Health benefits assessment; Multilevel Cox regression model; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MORTALITY RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347396027     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-007-0133-2     Document Type: Article

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