Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Air pollution epidemiology traditionally focuses on the relationship between individual air pollutants and health outcomes (e.g., mortality). To account for potential copollutant confounding, individual pollutant associations are often estimated by adjusting or controlling for other pollutants in the mixture. Recently, the need to characterize the relationship between health outcomes and the larger multipollutant mixture has been emphasized in an attempt to better protect public health and inform more sustainable air quality management decisions.

Methods

New and innovative statistical methods to examine multipollutant exposures were identified through a broad literature search, with a specific focus on those statistical approaches currently used in epidemiologic stud

SUBMITTER: Davalos AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5313327 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature