Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particles

Environment International

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-64

  Pirani, Monica ^a   Best, Nicky ^b   Blangiardo, Marta ^b   Liverani, Silvia ^b,c,d   Atkinson, Richard W ^e   Fuller, Gary W ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine and MRC Health Protection Agency   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne particles; Bayesian inference; Dirichlet process mixture model; Respiratory mortality; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MARKOV CHAINS; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIME SERIES;

95% CREDIBLE INTERVALS; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DIRICHLET PROCESS MIXTURE MODEL; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; RESPIRATORY MORTALITY;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NITRATE; SULFATE; AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TIME SERIES;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LONDON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SULFATES;

EID: 84924964480     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.02.010     Document Type: Article

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