Open AccessA cross-sectional analysis of associations between environmental indices and asthma in U.S. counties from 2003 to 2012
Author(s) -
Patrick Hurbain,
Yan Liu,
Matthew Strickland,
Dingsheng Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of exposure science and environmental epidemiology/journal of exposure science and environmental epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1559-064X
pISSN - 1559-0631
DOI - 10.1038/s41370-021-00326-4
Subject(s) - asthma , environmental health , logistic regression , environmental data , index (typography) , environmental epidemiology , population , medicine , cross sectional study , demography , computer science , sociology , world wide web , political science , law , pathology
To capture the impacts of environmental stressors, environmental indices like the Air Quality Index, Toxic Release Inventory, and Environmental Quality Index have been used to investigate the environmental quality and its association with public health issues. However, past studies often rely on relatively small sample sizes, and they have typically not adjusted for important individual-level disease risk factors.