Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease …

ContextAssociations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and
increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality. However…

Background: Estimating the burden of disease attributable to long-term exposure to fine
particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) in ambient air requires knowledge of both the shape and magnitude …

Exposure to ambient air pollution is a major risk factor for global disease. Assessment of the
impacts of air pollution on population health and evaluation of trends relative to other major …

Background— Epidemiologic studies have linked long-term exposure to fine particulate
matter air pollution (PM) to broad cause-of-death mortality. Associations with specific …

Background Although many studies have linked elevations in tropospheric ozone to adverse
health outcomes, the effect of long-term exposure to ozone on air pollution–related mortality …

OBJECTIVES (i) An update of the national analysis a) to assess the confounding and modifying
effect of community and neighbourhood level ecological covariates on the air pollution–…

Background: The assessment of air pollution exposure using only community average
concentrations may lead to measurement error that lowers estimates of the health burden …

Background— Fine particulate matter exposure from both ambient air pollution and secondhand
cigarette smoke has been associated with larger risks of cardiovascular mortality than …

This study compares two North American time–activity data bases: the National Human Activity
Pattern Survey (NHAPS) of 9386 interviewees in 1992–1994 in the continental USA with …