Vulnerability-based spatial sampling stratification for the national children's study, Worcester County, Massachusetts: Capturing health-relevant environmental and sociodemographic variability

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1318-1325

  Downs, Timothy J ^a,b   Ogneva Himmelberger, Yelena ^b   Aupont, Onesky ^c   Wang, Yangyang ^b   Raj, Ann ^b   Zimmerman, Paula ^b   Goble, Robert ^a,b   Taylor, Octavia ^b   Churchill, Linda ^c   Lemay, Celeste ^c   Mclaughlin, Thomas ^c   Felice, Marianne ^c  

^a Environmental Science and Policy Program   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; GIS; National children's study; Stratified sampling; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; STRESS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956821281     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901315     Document Type: Article

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