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Air Pollution and Health: A European and North American Approach
Report #: 142, Publication Type: Research Reports

Author: Katsouyanni, Klea, Jonathan M Samet, HR Anderson, R Atkinson, A Le Tertre, S Medina, E Samoli, G Touloumi, RT Burnett, D Krewski, T Ramsay, F Dominici, RD Peng, J Schwartz, and A Zanobetti, 2009-10-29 Order this Publication

About This Publication Please scroll down to download the report or HEI statement (a short synopsis).
This report describes a unique collaboration among investigators from Europe, the United States, and Canada using existing data from three geographic areas and supported by HEI in collaboration with the European Commission. APHENA offered a large and diverse data set with which to address methodological as well as scientific issues about the relationships between PM10, ozone, and mortality and morbidity that were the subject of lively debates at the time the project was launched. Drs. Katsouyanni and Samet and their colleagues undertook a rigorous examination of time-series methods used to model the relationship between daily PM10 and ozone concentrations and daily mortality and hospital admissions. They sought to develop a standardized approach to the analysis of time series data at the city and regional level, to assess the consistency between relative rates of mortality and hospital admissions across Europe and North America when estimated using a common analytic protocol, and to explore possible explanations for any remaining variation in the results that analytic differences could not explain.

The Appendices listed below are Available on the Web only (i.e. they are not part of the printed report).

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Title Description Size
Investigators' Report
2/4/10. Press version. Includes a Commentary by the HEI Health Review Committee. 2924 kb
Statement
10/29/09. PDF Format 73 kb
Appendix D
10/29/09. Mortality and Hospital Admission Tables Describing the Canada, Europe, and United States Data Sets 591 kb
Appendix E
10/29/09. Effect Modifier Tables for Canada, Europe, and the United States. 307 kb

Title	Description	Size
Investigators' Report	2/4/10. Press version. Includes a Commentary by the HEI Health Review Committee.	2924 kb
Statement	10/29/09. PDF Format	73 kb
Appendix D	10/29/09. Mortality and Hospital Admission Tables Describing the Canada, Europe, and United States Data Sets	591 kb
Appendix E	10/29/09. Effect Modifier Tables for Canada, Europe, and the United States.	307 kb