Multicity study of air pollution and morality in Latin America (the ESCALA study)
By: Isabelle Romieu, Nelson Gouveia, and Luis A. Cifuentes ; with a commentary by the HEI Health Review Committee
Contributors: Gouveia, Nelson da Cruz; Cifuentes, Luis A.; Health Effects Institute. Health Review Committee
Series: Research report -- 171; Research report (Health Effects Institute) -- no. 171
Publisher: Health Effects Institute
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Air Pollution; Air; Pollution; Health aspects; ESCALA Study
Description: "This report describes the first-ever multi-city study to estimate the effect of short-term exposures to particulate matter (PM10) and to ozone on mortality in nine Latin American cities. Led by Dr. Isabelle Romieu in Mexico, in collaboration with Dr. Nelson Gouveia in Brazil and Dr. Luis Cifuentes in Chile, the researchers evaluated mortality from all causes and in different age groups, using a common analytic framework. They analyzed mortality in each city and the region as a whole, and explored two pollutant models in individual cities. They also used two meta-analytic statistical techniques to further analyze the effects from individual cities."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "October 2012"--Cover.

"Brazil investigators: Antonio Ponce de Leon [and] Washington Junger; Chili investigators: Jeanette Vera [and] Valentia Strappa; Mexico investigators: Magali Hurtado-Diaz, Victor Miranda-Soberanis, Leonora Rojas-Brachoo, Luz Carbajal-Arroyo, and Guadalupe Tzintzun-Cervantes"--Beneath title.

The HEI Statement in Spanish and Portuguese and the Appendices G-J are available only on the web and are not part of the printed report.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104).

Also available via the World Wide Web.