Gravity models to classify commuting vs. resident workers. An application to the analysis of residential risk in a contaminated area

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Signorino, Guido ^a   Pasetto, Roberto ^b   Gatto, Elisa ^a   Mucciardi, Massimo ^a   La Rocca, Marina ^a   Mudu, Pierpaolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c WHO European Centre for Environment and Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMMUTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CALTANISSETTA; GELA; ITALY; SICILY;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SICILY; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL;

EID: 79251554968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-11     Document Type: Article

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