A new multipollutant, no-threshold air quality health index based on short-term associations observed in daily time-series analyses

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-450

  Stieb, David M ^a,b   Burnett, Richard T ^a,b   Smith Doiron, Marc ^a   Brion, Orly ^a   Hwashin, Hyun Shin ^a   Economou, Vanita ^b  

^a Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; HEALTH CARE; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY HEALTH INDEX (AQHI); MULTIPOLLUTANT MODELS; MULTIPOLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY INDEX; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH HAZARD; MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 41549131210     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.58.3.435     Document Type: Article

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