Environmental health indicators and a case study of air pollution in Latin American cities

ML Bell, LA Cifuentes, DL Davis, E Cushing… - Environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Environmental health indicators (EHIs) are applied in a variety of research and decision-
making settings to gauge the health consequences of environmental hazards, to summarize …

Community perceptions of air pollution and related health risks in Nairobi slums

T Egondi, C Kyobutungi, N Ng, K Muindi, S Oti… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is among the leading global risks for mortality and responsible for increasing
risk for chronic diseases. Community perceptions on exposure are critical in determining …

Dust storms and the risk of asthma admissions to hospitals in Kuwait

L Thalib, A Al-Taiar - Science of the total environment, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Arid areas in the Arabian Peninsula are one of the largest sources of global
dust, yet there is no data on the impact of this on human health. This study aimed to …

Effect modification by community characteristics on the short-term effects of ozone exposure and mortality in 98 US communities

ML Bell, F Dominici - American journal of epidemiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Previous research provided evidence of an association between short-term exposure to
ozone and mortality risk and of heterogeneity in the risk across communities. The authors …

[HTML][HTML] Household air pollution related to biomass cook stove emissions and its interaction with improved cookstoves

R Pratiti - AIMS Public Health, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods A literature review was conducted for household air pollution related to biomass
cookstoves in resource limited countries. In January 2018, we electronically searched the …

The impact of car pollution on infant and child health: Evidence from emissions cheating

D Alexander, H Schwandt - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In 2008, Volkswagen introduced a new generation of “Clean Diesel” cars and heavily
marketed them to environmentally conscious US consumers. Unknown to the public, these …

[HTML][HTML] The modifying effect of socioeconomic status on the relationship between traffic, air pollution and respiratory health in elementary schoolchildren

S Cakmak, C Hebbern, JD Cakmak, J Vanos - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The volume and type of traffic and exposure to air pollution have been found to be
associated with respiratory health, but few studies have considered the interaction with …

An examination of exposure measurement error from air pollutant spatial variability in time-series studies

SE Sarnat, M Klein, JA Sarnat, WD Flanders… - Journal of exposure …, 2010 - nature.com
Relatively few studies have evaluated the effects of heterogeneous spatiotemporal pollutant
distributions on health risk estimates in time-series analyses that use data from a central …

The effect of sandstorms and air pollution on cause-specific hospital admissions in Taipei, Taiwan

ML Bell, JK Levy, Z Lin - Occupational and environmental medicine, 2008 - oem.bmj.com
Objective: Relatively little research exists focusing on the impact of air pollution on hospital
admissions in Asia compared to the extensive work conducted in the USA and Europe. The …

[PDF][PDF] Residential proximity to major highways—United States, 2010

EL Woghiren-Akinnifesi - CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report …, 2013 - cdc.gov
Traffic-related air pollution is a main contributor to unhealthy ambient air quality, particularly
in urban areas with high traffic volume. Within urban areas, traffic is a major source of local …