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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Environmental epidemiology."”.
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Geostatistical Models for Exposure Estimation in Environmental Epidemiology.
… between health outcomes and exposure to environmental pollutants benefit from measures of exposure made at the individual level. In this thesis we consider geostatistical modelling strategies aimed at providing such individual-level estimates. We present three papers showing how to adapt …
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Social and environmental epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Ghana
… but also a series complex interactions between environmental and social processes. Hence the degree of the spatial heterogeneity, that often characterises the transmission of infections, may differ for different endemic settings depending on the extent of the interaction between these processes. …
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Spatial modeling, covariate measurement error and design issues in environmental epidemiology
… when susceptibility genes are rare and environmental exposure is highly skewed.
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Impacts of prenatal phthalate and bisphenol exposure on infant cognition and early language development
… that can be used to assess infant cognition in environmental epidemiology as well as to examine associations of prenatal exposures to BPA, two of its replacement chemicals, bisphenol F (BPF) and bisphenol S (BPS), diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), and the DEHP …
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Bayesian treed distributed lag models
… previous time window. This frequently arises in environmental epidemiology where either a health outcome on one day is regressed on environmental exposures (e.g. temperature or air pollution) observed on that day and several proceeding days or when a birth or children's health outcome is …
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A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH TO ASSESS CHILDREN PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO BLACK CARBON IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: SPATIAL ANALYSIS, PERSONAL MEASUREMENTS, AND POSSIBLE MITIGATION ACTIONS.
… the most vulnerable ones are needed, as well as environmental education interventions aiming to effectively raise awareness among the public. This is especially true for the city of Milan, which is located in one of the most polluted areas in Europe. Moreover, since a multitude of new evidences …
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Accounting for spatial confounding in large scale epidemiological studies
Epidemiological analyses of environmental risk factors often include spatially-varying exposures and outcomes. Unmeasured, spatially-varying factors can lead to confounding bias in estimates of associations. In this dissertation, I present a comparison of existing and new methods that use thin …
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Maternal Residential Proximity to Central Appalachian Surface Mining and Adverse Birth Outcomes
Maternal residency in Central Appalachian coalfields has been associated with low birth weight at the county-level. To refine the relationship between proximity and adverse birth outcomes, this study employs finer spatial scales of exposure. Spatiotemporal characterizations of surface mining …
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COMING TO THE SURFACE: THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND CULTURE IN BUTTE, MONTANA
… are two types of remediation occurring in Butte: environmental and cultural. Environmental remediation occurs throughout the city, most notably at the operable units of the Butte Superfund sites. This remediation does not restore the environment to its original state but instead reclaims it to a …
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COMING TO THE SURFACE: THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND CULTURE IN BUTTE, MONTANA
… are two types of remediation occurring in Butte: environmental and cultural. Environmental remediation occurs throughout the city, most notably at the operable units of the Butte Superfund sites. This remediation does not restore the environment to its original state but instead reclaims it to a …
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Modelling broiler chicken health and welfare in a changing climate
… on broiler health and welfare in the future. An environmental epidemiological approach and methodology was applied to an extensive slaughterhouse dataset shared by the Food Standards Agency, UK, and to historical weather and climate projection data obtained via the Met Office and Centre for …