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Assessing the health impacts of air pollution: a re-analysis of the Hamilton children's cohort data using a spatial analytic approach

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to reassess children's exposure to air pollution as well as investigate the importance of other covariates of respiratory health. We re-examined the Hamilton Children's Cohort (HCC) dataset with enhanced spatial analysis methods, refined in the approximately two decades since the original study was undertaken. Children's exposure to air pollution was first re-estimated using kriging and land-use regression. The …

Authors

Pouliou T; Kanaroglou PS; Elliott SJ; Pengelly LD

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Health Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 17–35

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

February 2008

DOI

10.1080/09603120701844290

ISSN

0960-3123