Modeling spatial effects of PM2.5 on term low birth weight in Los Angeles County

Environmental Research

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 354-364

  Coker, Eric ^a   Ghosh, Jokay ^b   Jerrett, Michael ^c   Gomez Rubio, Virgilio ^d   Beckerman, Bernardo ^c   Cockburn, Myles ^e   Liverani, Silvia ^f   Su, Jason ^c   Li, Arthur ^g   Kile, Molly L ^a   Ritz, Beate ^b   Molitor, John ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Multilevel modeling; PM2.5; Spatial effects; Term low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIRTH RATE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LAND USE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TERM LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOS ANGELES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84937141656     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.06.044     Document Type: Article

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