Spatial analysis of air pollution and cancer incidence rates in Haifa Bay, Israel

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4429-4439

  Eitan, Ori ^a   Yuval, ^a   Barchana, Micha ^b,c   Dubnov, Jonathan ^b,c   Linn, Shai ^c,d   Carmel, Yohay ^a   Broday, David M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Kriging; Lung cancer; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; PM10; Population exposure; SO2; Spatial randomness

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; KRIGING; LUNG CANCER; NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA; PM10; POPULATION EXPOSURE; SO2; SPATIAL RANDOMNESS;

AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRY; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTERPOLATION; ONCOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

RISKS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANCER; HEALTH RISK; KRIGING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

HAIFA BAY; ISRAEL;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 77955922490     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.031     Document Type: Article

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