Estimates of global mortality attributable to particulate air pollution using satellite imagery

Environmental Research

Volumn 120, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-42

  Evans, Jessica ^a   van Donkelaar, Aaron ^b   Martin, Randall V ^b,c   Burnett, Richard ^d   Rainham, Daniel G ^b   Birkett, Nicholas J ^a   Krewski, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global; Health burden; Mortality; Particulate matter; Satellite imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIENT AIR; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DATA SET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH IMPACT; MISR; MODIS; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGERY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION;

AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULMONARY HEART DISEASE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84871690578     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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