Air pollution and deaths among elderly residents of São Paulo, Brazil: An analysis of mortality displacement

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 349-354

  Costa, Amine Farias ^a,b   Hoek, Gerard ^c   Brunekreef, Bert ^c,d   Ponce de Leon, Antônio C M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 85014324904     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP98     Document Type: Article

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