Burden of disease attributable to the Hebei Spirit oil spill in Taean, Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to assess the burden of disease (BOD) of the residents living in contaminated coastal area with oil spill and also analysed the BOD attributable to the oil spill by disease, age, sex and subregion.

Design

Health impact assessment by measuring years lived with disability (YLD) due to an oil spill.

Setting

A whole population of a community affected by an anthropogenic environmental disaster and secondary health outcome data.

Participants

Based on the health outcome survey including 10 171 individuals (male 4354; female 5817), BOD of 66 473 populations (male 33 441; female 33 032) was measured.

Interventions

None. Observational study on the effect of a specific environmental health hazard.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

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SUBMITTER: Kim YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3780322 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature