Multipollutant (indoor-outdoor) interactions and health

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5104401

Quackenboss, J J; Lebowitz, M D; Camilli, A E ^[1]; Nolan, P ^[2]; Hayes, C ^[3]

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1. Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (USA). School of Medicine
2. Pima County Health Dept., Tucson, AR (US)
3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (US)

The authors discuss how quantitative assessments of the adverse health effects of air pollution in community populations, require the use of difficult and costly epidemiological techniques to evaluate interactions among pollutants in producing measurable health responses. Estimates of contributing factors, their associations and joint distributions, and the number of people exposed to different combinations of these factors are required for selecting the study populations and efficiently allocating resources for air monitoring and health assessments. Such studies normally take much longer to complete than single pollutant evaluations due to the larger number of subjects and longer follow up periods required for concurrent evaluation of several factors and their interactions. The selection of methods to assess specific health effects is dependent on the characteristics of exposures and of the anticipated responses. These methods and their quality control have been widely discussed, and include questionnaire surveys, tests of physiological function, bioassays and biological monitoring. Applications of clinical and psychophysical methods in studies of indoor pollutants have also proved successful recently. For multipollutant studies, a combination in instruments are required to determine both exposures and responses.

• OSTI ID: 5104401
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA) Journal Volume: 3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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