Pollution and the young combined analyses of cross-sectional studies of respiratory health of children and air pollution

Objetivo

Uncertainties remain about the impacts of air pollution on the young. By bringing together a large number of comparable data, which have already been collected, this study offers a cost-effective route to improved assessments of the effects of long term impacts of air pollution. This study will assemble data from 12 countries, a combined study size of over 60,000 children from 140 areas. The health and exposure data will be subject to careful quality control checks and thematic-level statistical analyses conducted to provide estimates of the effects of PM10, SO2 and NO2, independently and jointly, on respiratory symptoms and on pulmonary function. Risk modification by significant emission source type, interaction with socio-economic status, and with indicators of atop will be assessed as well as the relative contributions of indoor and outdoor air.

Ámbito científico

• ingeniería y tecnología › ingeniería ambiental › ingeniería de la contaminación atmosférica
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias ambientales › contaminación

Programa(s)

• FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Tema(s)

• 1.1.1.-4. - Key action Environment and Health

Convocatoria de propuestas

Data not available

Régimen de financiación

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinador

LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE

Dirección

Keppel Street
WC1E 7HT London
United Kingdom

Participantes (9)

FODOR JOZSEF NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH CENTRE

Hungría

Dirección

2-6,gyalli Ut 2-6
1966 Budapest

GSF-RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

Alemania

Dirección

Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1
85764 Neuherberg

INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Polonia

Dirección

Koscielna Street 13
41 200 Sosnowiec

LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY RME

Italia

Dirección

Via Di Santa Costanza 53j
00198 Roma

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR HYGIENE, MEDICAL ECOLOGY AND NUTRITION

Bulgaria

Dirección

15,dimitar Nestorov Boulevard 15
1431 Sofia

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Países Bajos

Dirección

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9
3720 BA Bilthoven

REGIONAL HYGIENE INSTITUTE

Chequia

Dirección

Partyzanske Nam 7
728 92 Ostrava

STATE HEALTH INSTITUTE

Eslovaquia

Dirección

Cesta K. Nemocnici 1
975 56 Banska Bystrica

UNIVERSITAET BASEL

Suiza

Dirección

49,steinengraben 49
4051 Basel