Response to “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: methodological errors must be avoided”

We thank Morfeld and Erren for their interest in our recent publication on “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project” (Héroux et al. 2015). Morfeld and Erren claim that there are potential problems with the statistical approach used in our pap...

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Autores: Héroux, Marie-Eve, Brunekreef, Bert, Ross Anderson, H., Cohen, Aaron, Forastiere, Francesco, Hurley, Fintan, Katsouyanni, Klea, Krewsky, Daniel, Krzyzanowski, Michal, Mills, Inga, Künzli, Nino, Querol, Xavier, Ostro, Bart, Walton, Heather
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/219752
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/219752
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Air pollution
Health impacts
Descrição
Resumo:We thank Morfeld and Erren for their interest in our recent publication on “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project” (Héroux et al. 2015). Morfeld and Erren claim that there are potential problems with the statistical approach used in our paper to measure the impact on mortality from air pollution. In fact, they state that “Greenland showed that a calculation based on RR estimates, as performed in the EU research project, does estimate excess cases numbers—but it does not estimate the number of premature cases or etiological cases” (Greenland 1999).

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