Methodology for defining the effects of outdoor air pollution on children's health at the population level : a systematic review

Galičič, An (author), Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana (author), Božnar, Marija (author), Grašič, Boštjan (author), Mlakar, Primož (author), Kukec, Andreja (author)

Outdoor air pollution is an important determinant of health. Children are one of the most sensitive population groups due to their yet underdeveloped respiratory system. Methodology for linkage environmental and health data at population level had been initiated by the World Health Organization about twenty years ago. The aim of our study is an overview of methods with which the effects of outdoor air pollution on children's health have been investigated at the population level. Literature overview was made systematically. Health effects of outdoor air pollution at the population level were firstly investigated after 1990. Simultaneously with the most common outdoor air pollutants (NO2, SO2, O3, PM10 and CO) monitoring of health effects was measured. Poisson regression analysis was the most frequently used method of ecological timeseries studies and spatial studies. Exposure misclassification was in this research field the most common limitation of ecological studies. This study supports the need of future research on outdoor air pollution's effects on the at population level from an engineering and public health view.

• Language: English
• Keywords: outdoor air pollution, children health, time-series study, spatial study, methodology
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 35-49
• Numbering: Vol. 9, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-112986
• UDC: 614
• ISSN on article: 1854-0678
• URN: URN:NBN:SI:doc-8SKPWM58
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32486105
• Publication date in RUL: 27.11.2019

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sanitarno inženirstvo
• Publisher: Inštitut za sanitarno inženirstvo, Zbornica sanitarnih inženirjev Slovenije
• ISSN: 1854-0678
• COBISS.SI-ID: 216969216

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• Licensing start date: 27.11.2019