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Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology

Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology

Methods for Small Area Studies

9780192622358
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Now available in paperback, this book is the first to address both the theoretical and practical issues which arise when describing the geographical distribution of disease and investigating apparent disease clusters. Requirements in terms of population data, disease incidence, and mortality are considered and related to the scale at which a study is being carried out. Statistical methods are reviewed for large scale correlation studies, intermediate scale map smoothing exercises,and small scale clustering investigations. Problems of measuring environmental exposures at different scales are also reviewed.These issues are then related to current practice via comprehensive set of case studies which include a large correlation study in China, clustering of asthma attacks, the Sellafield-leukaemia cluster, environmental clusters of mesothelioma in Turkey, and a multi-source study if cancer incidence around an incinerator.
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Publication date
1996
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
404
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
603
  • PART I:: Introduction; Geographical epidemiology and ecological studies; Small-area studies:: purpose and methods; Health and the environment:: the significance of chemicals and radiation; PART II:: Data, computational methods, and mapping; Mortality data; Cancer incidence data for adults; Cancer incidence data for children; Congenital anomalies; Specialized registers; Population counts in small areas; Use of routine data in studies of point sources of environmental pollution; Socio-economic confounding; Use of record linkage in small-area studies; Confidentiality; Practical approaches to disease mapping; Estimating environmental exposures; Mapping environmental exposure; PART III:: Statistical methods; Statistical methods for geographical correlation studies; Bayesian methods for mapping disease risk; Statistical methods for analysing point-source exposures; Some comments on methods for investigating disease risk around a point source; Methods for the assessment of disease clusters; PART IV:: Studies of health and the environment; Environmental epidemiology:: a historical perspective:: Guidelines for the investigation of clusters of adverse health events; Studies of disease clustering:: problems of interpretation; PART V:: Case studies; Childhood leukaemia around the Sellafield nuclear plant; The epidemic of respiratory cancer associated with erionite fibres in the Cappadocian region of Turkey; Soya bean as a risk factor for epidemic asthma; The Sevesco accident; Cancer of the larynx and lung near incinerators of waste solvents and oils in Britain; A study of geographical correlations in China;
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