Linking environmental effects to health impacts: a computer modelling approach for air pollution.

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STUDY OBJECTIVE AND SETTING: To develop a computer model, using a geographical information system (GIS), to quantify potential health effects of air pollution from a new energy from waste facility on the surrounding urban population.

Design

Health impacts were included where evidence of causality is sufficiently convincing. The evidence for no threshold means that annual average increases in concentration can be used to model changes in outcome. The study combined the "contours" of additional pollutant concentrations for the new source generated by a dispersion model with a population database within a GIS, which is set up to calculate the product of the concentration increase with numbers of people exposed within each enumeration district exposure response coeffi

SUBMITTER: Mindell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1732978 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature