Associations between ozone and morbidity using the Spatial Synoptic Classification system

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hanna, Adel F ^a   Yeatts, Karin B ^b   Xiu, Aijun ^a   Zhu, Zhengyuan ^c   Smith, Richard L ^d   Davis, Neil N ^a   Talgo, Kevin D ^a   Arora, Gurmeet ^e   Robinson, Peter J ^d   Meng, Qingyu ^f   Pinto, Joseph P ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e HSBC Bank   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^g U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DEW POINT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LINEARITY; MORBIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTION EFFECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SPATIAL SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; AIR; CITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; STATISTICS; WEATHER;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ASTHMA; CITIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORTH CAROLINA; OZONE; PATIENT ADMISSION; WEATHER;

EID: 79956283624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-49     Document Type: Article

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