Identifying vulnerable populations through an examination of the association between multipollutant profiles and poverty

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7754-7760

  Molitor, John ^a,b   Su, Jason G ^c   Molitor, Nuoo Ting ^b   Rubio, Virgilio Gómez ^d   Richardson, Sylvia ^a   Hastie, David ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^c   Jerrett, Michael ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURES; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; C++ CODES; CENSUS TRACTS; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; LOS ANGELES; MODELING APPROACH; MULTICOLLINEARITY; MULTILEVEL MODELING; TOXIC EFFECT;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS;

POLLUTION;

DIESEL FUEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CENSUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH RISK; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; VULNERABILITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; POLLUTANT; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POVERTY; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052718501     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104017x     Document Type: Article

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