The relationship between odour annoyance scores and modelled ambient air pollution in Sarnia, "Chemical Valley", Ontario

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2655-2675

  Atari, Dominic Odwa ^a   Luginaah, Isaac N ^a   Fung, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Land use regression; Nitrogen dioxide; Odour annoyance; Ontario; Pollution; Sarnia; Sulphur dioxide

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; PERCEPTION; POLLUTANT; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ODORS; ONTARIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMELL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SULFUR DIOXIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449433584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6102655     Document Type: Article

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