Concentration-response function for ozone and daily mortality: Results from five urban and five rural U.K. populations

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1411-1417

  Atkinson, Richard W ^a   Yu, Dahai ^a   Armstrong, Ben G ^b   Pattenden, Sam ^b   Wilkinson, Paul ^b   Doherty, Ruth M ^c   Heal, Mathew R ^d   Anderson, H Ross ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute of Geography School of GeoSciences   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentration response function; Daily mortality; Ozone; U.K. population

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84867180501     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104108     Document Type: Article

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