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Open Access 26.04.2016 | Letter to the Editor

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

verfasst von: Marie-Eve Héroux, Bert Brunekreef, H. Ross Anderson, Richard Atkinson, Aaron Cohen, Francesco Forastiere, Fintan Hurley, Klea Katsouyanni, Daniel Krewski, Michal Krzyzanowski, Nino Künzli, Inga Mills, Xavier Querol, Bart Ostro, Heather Walton

Erschienen in: International Journal of Public Health | Ausgabe 3/2016

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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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Titel: Response to “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: methodological errors must be avoided”
verfasst von: Marie-Eve Héroux
Bert Brunekreef
H. Ross Anderson
Richard Atkinson
Aaron Cohen
Francesco Forastiere
Fintan Hurley
Klea Katsouyanni
Daniel Krewski
Michal Krzyzanowski
Nino Künzli
Inga Mills
Xavier Querol
Bart Ostro
Heather Walton
Publikationsdatum: 26.04.2016
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: International Journal of Public Health / Ausgabe 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Elektronische ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-016-0808-x

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