Air pollution and respiratory diseases: ecological time series

ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Exposure to air pollutants is one of the factors responsible for hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases. The objective here was to estimate the effect of exposure to particulate matter (such as PM2.5) on hospitalizations due to certain respiratory diseases among...

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Main Author: Nascimento,Luiz Fernando Costa (author)
Other Authors: Vieira,Luciana Cristina Pompeo Ferreira (author), Mantovani,Kátia Cristina Cota (author), Moreira,Demerval Soares (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Particulate matter
Air pollution
Pneumonia
Bronchiolitis
Mathematical models
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802016000400315
Country:Brazil
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