Worldwide associations between air quality and health end-points: Are they meaningful?

Objectives: The World Health Organization (WHO) provides data on national indices of health, environment and economy. When we were asked, why air pollution is negatively correlated with cancer mortality, our first response (presumably the mortality data are not age-adjusted) was not sufficient to ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Wallner, Hans Peter Hutter, Hanns Moshammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2014-10-01
Series:International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Subjects:
WHO
Online Access:http://ijomeh.eu/Worldwide-associations-between-air-quality-and-health-end-points-are-they-meaningful-,2100,0,2.html