Extreme Precipitation and Emergency Room Visits for Gastrointestinal Illness in Areas with and without Combined Sewer Systems: An Analysis of Massachusetts Data, 2003–2007 | Zendy

Jyotsna S. Jagai | Zendy; Quanlin Li | Zendy; Hua Wang | Zendy; Kyle P. Messier | Zendy; Timothy J. Wade | Zendy; Elizabeth D. Hilborn | Zendy

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Extreme Precipitation and Emergency Room Visits for Gastrointestinal Illness in Areas with and without Combined Sewer Systems: An Analysis of Massachusetts Data, 2003–2007

Author(s) -

Jyotsna S. Jagai,

Quanlin Li,

Hua Wang,

Kyle P. Messier,

Timothy J. Wade,

Elizabeth D. Hilborn

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1408971

Subject(s) - combined sewer , environmental science , percentile , distributed lag , precipitation , waterborne diseases , medicine , poisson regression , stormwater , environmental health , surface runoff , geography , meteorology , ecology , biology , population , machine learning , computer science , outbreak , statistics , mathematics , virology

Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) occur in combined sewer systems when sewage and stormwater runoff are released into water bodies, potentially contaminating water sources. CSOs are often caused by heavy precipitation and are expected to increase with increasing extreme precipitation associated with climate change.

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