Geospatial relationships of air pollution and acute asthma events across the Detroit-Windsor international border: Study design and preliminary results

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-357

  Lemke, Lawrence D ^a   Lamerato, Lois E ^b   Xu, Xiaohong ^c   Booza, Jason C ^a   Reiners, John J ^a   Raymond Iii III, Delbert M ^d   Villeneuve, Paul J ^e,f   Lavigne, Eric ^g   Larkin, Dana ^b   Krouse, Helene J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^d EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asthma; Detroit; Geospatia; International; Windsor

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ASTHMA; CANADA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903201258     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2013.78     Document Type: Article

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