Residential proximity to petroleum storage tanks and associated cancer risks: Double Kernel Density approach vs. zonal estimates

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 441, Issue , 2012, Pages 265-276

  Zusman, Marina ^a   Dubnov, Jonathan ^a,b   Barchana, Micha ^a   Portnov, Boris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age Standardized Rates (ASRs); Double Kernel Density (DKD) approach; Lung and NHL cancer incidence; Petroleum storage sites; Residential proximity

Indexed keywords

AGE-STANDARDIZED RATES (ASRS); KERNEL DENSITY; LUNG AND NHL CANCER INCIDENCE; PETROLEUM STORAGE; RESIDENTIAL PROXIMITY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

DISEASES;

PETROLEUM;

CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; PETROLEUM; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORAGE TANK;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE KERNEL DENSITY TOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISRAEL; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84868552284     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.09.054     Document Type: Article

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