Effects of short-term exposure to air pollution on hospital admissions of young children for acute lower respiratory infection in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
By: HEI Collaborative Working Group on Air Pollution, Poverty, and Heatlh in Ho Chi Minh City (Le Truong Giang, Long Ngo, Sumi Mehta, et al.) ; with a critique by the HEI Health Review Committee
Contributors: Giang, Le Truong; Ngo, Long; Mehta, Sumi; Health Effects Institute. Health Review Committee
Series: Research report -- 169; Research report (Health Effects Institute) -- no. 169
Publisher: Health Effects Institute
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Research; Child; Respiratory Tract Infections; Air Pollution; Air; Pollution; Health aspects; Respiratory infections in children
Description: "This report describes a study to investigate the relationships among daily variations in air pollution in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, hospital admissions for acute lower respiratory infections in children under age 5, and poverty. The study was part of HEI's Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) program and is the first study of air quality and health to be performed in Vietnam. The team of investigators, led by Drs. Le Truong Giang, Long Ngo, and Sumi Mehta, collected daily pollutant data for PM10, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone at multiple locations throughout the city and obtained admissions data from the two pediatric hospitals in HCMC. They then performed statistical analysis on the data using Poisson time-series and case-crossover methods"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "June 2012"--Cover.

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