Epidemiology and Air Pollution

Committee on the Epidemiology of Air Pollutants, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 Assessment of Health Effects; 5 Exposure Assessment; 6 Concepts and Strategies in Planning Epidemiologic Studies on Air Pollution; 7 The Application of Epidemiology to Selected Research Questions; 8 Conclusions and Recommendations; 9 Appendices; 10 Appendix A: Morbidity and Mortality From Respiratory Disease in the United States; 11 Appendix B: National Ambient Air Quality Standards; 12 Appendix C: Pitfalls in Design, Analysis, and Interpretation