Uncertainty Reduction and Environmental Justice in Air Pollution Epidemiology: The Importance of Minority Representation.

ABSTRACT: Ambient air pollution is an increasing threat to society, with rising numbers of adverse outcomes and exposure inequalities worldwide. Reducing uncertainty in health outcomes models and exposure disparity studies is therefore essential to develop policies effective in protecting the most affected places and populations. This study uses the concept of information entropy to study tradeoffs in mortality uncertainty reduction from increasing input data of air pollution versus health outcomes. We study a case scenario for short-term mortality from particulate matter (PM_2.5) in North Carolina for 2001-2016, employing a case-crossover design with inputs from an individual-level mortality data set and high-resolution gridded data sets of PM_2.5 and weather covariates. We find

SUBMITTER: Alifa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature