Associations between self-reported odour annoyance and volatile organic compounds in 'Chemical Valley', Sarnia, Ontario

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4537-4549

  Atari, Dominic Odwa ^a   Luginaah, Isaac N ^b   Gorey, Kevin ^c   Xu, Xiaohong ^c   Fung, Karen ^c  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose response gradient; Land use regression; Odour annoyance; Ontario; Pollution; Sarnia; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

DOSE RESPONSE; LAND USE REGRESSION; LAND-USE REGRESSION MODELS; ONTARIO; ORDINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SARNIA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC);

AIR QUALITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAND USE; LOGISTICS; NITROGEN OXIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

POLLUTION;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; META XYLENE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HEALTH SURVEY; ODOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; ODOR; POLLUTION MONITORING; RELATIVE DENSITY; SATISFACTION; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; SYMPTOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ODORS; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENES;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SARNIA;

EID: 84879042884     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2887-3     Document Type: Article

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