Establishing integrated rural-urban cohorts to assess air pollution-related health effects in pregnant women, children and adults in Southern India: An overview of objectives, design and methods in the Tamil Nadu Air Pollution and Health Effects (TAPHE) study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a   Sambandam, Sankar ^a   Ramaswamy, Padmavathi ^b   Ghosh, Santu ^a   Venkatesan, Vettriselvi ^b   Thangavel, Gurusamy ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Krishnendu ^a   Johnson, Priscilla ^b   Paul, Solomon ^b   Puttaswamy, Naveen ^a   Dhaliwal, Rupinder S ^c   Shukla, D K ^c  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Indian Council for Medical Research   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANT WOMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INDIA; INFANT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLICY MAKING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84937238945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008090     Document Type: Article

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