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... were estimated formothers and children, using a combination of advanced dispersion modelling and continuous monitoring data, taking into account the spatial and temporal variation in air pollution ... pollution exposure estimation using dispersion modelling and continuous monitoring data in a prospective birth cohort study in the Netherlands. EnvironmentalHealth 2012 11:9.Submit your next manuscript ... assessed for all addresses in the study area, using GIS and the three Dutch national stan-dard methods for air quality modelling (consideringintra-urban road traffic, traffic on highways, and...

... Public Health. Conselleriade Sanitat, Avda Catalunya 21, 46020, Valencia, Spain.5Andalusian School ofPublic Health (EASP), Campus de la Cartuja s/n, Granada, Spain.6Departmentof Public Health, ... variables, developed the land use regression analysis,assisted with data analysis, and helped with data interpretation and manuscript preparation. SL, AE, RR, ML, and MR contributed to data collection, ... cohort study in Valencia, SpainFerran Ballester1,2,3*, Marisa Estarlich2,1, Carmen Iñiguez1,2, Sabrina Llop2,1, Rosa Ramón2,4, Ana Esplugues1,2,Marina Lacasa a 5,2, Marisa Rebagliato6,2AbstractBackground:...

... authorities in the study area and were linked to a digital map of all road s in the Netherlands (NWB), using GIS. Other land use data were obtained fro m a European land use database(CORINE). Supervised ... the area and the nearest freeway, which islocated to the west of the study area. The circle within the map of the Netherlands indicates were the study area is situated, the area marked in black ... over a large area (6,000 km2 )in the West of the Netherlands, of which the current study area is part of. Traffic flow data were provided by allnational, provincial and municipal authorities in...

... using time series regression methods, and as the health data are only available as dailycounts, Poisson generalised linear and additive models are the standard method ofanalysis. These data ... from the data. Their work is the only knownanalysis of air pollution and health data using DGLMs, and they implement theirmodel in a likelihood framework using the Kalman filter. In this paper ... ofwhich include Air pollution and health: a European approach’ (APHEA) (Zmirouet al. (1998)) and The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS) (Samet et al. (2000)). Although...

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... to the individual and to the timing and duration of exposure. Air pollution levels show substantial temporal and spatial variation. This can be taken into account by the concept of personal integrated ... contain at least 50 individuals from the target population. Collecting exposure data from the population sample should contain monitoring their exposures and administering diaries for time-activity ... supports the findings of the mortality data, namely that existing levels of particulate air pollutants in West European cities have a significant impact on the cardiovascular and respiratory health...

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