Air pollution and health: A European and North American approach (APHENA)

Katsouyanni, K; Samet, JM; Anderson, HR; Atkinson, R; Le Tertre, A; Medina, S; Samoli, E; Touloumi, G; Burnett, RT; Krewski, D; Ramsay, T; Dominici, F; Peng, RD; Schwartz, J; Zanobetti, A

HERO ID

199899

Reference Type

Technical Report

Year

2009

Language

English

PMID

20073322

HERO ID 199899
Year 2009
Title Air pollution and health: A European and North American approach (APHENA)
Authors Katsouyanni, K; Samet, JM; Anderson, HR; Atkinson, R; Le Tertre, A; Medina, S; Samoli, E; Touloumi, G; Burnett, RT; Krewski, D; Ramsay, T; Dominici, F; Peng, RD; Schwartz, J; Zanobetti, A
Publisher Text Health Effects Institute
City Boston, MA
Page Numbers 5-90
Abstract 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.
Pmid 20073322
Wosid MEDLINE:20073322
Report Number Research Report 142
Url https://www.healtheffects.org/publication/air-pollution-and-health-european-and-north-american-approach
Is Certified Translation No
Dupe Override No
Series Research Reports (Health Effects Institute), no. 142
Is Public Yes
Language Text English