Open AccessTraffic-Related Air Pollution and Socioeconomic Status
Author(s) -
Sabrina Havard,
Séverine Deguen,
Denis ZmirouNavier,
Charles Schillinger,
Denis Bard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0b013e31819464e1
Subject(s) - spatial analysis , autocorrelation , statistics , air pollution , socioeconomic status , ordinary least squares , geography , index (typography) , environmental science , environmental health , econometrics , mathematics , medicine , biology , ecology , population , computer science , world wide web
: Most ecologic studies of environmental equity show that groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to be exposed to higher air pollution levels than groups of higher SES. However, these studies rarely consider spatial autocorrelation in the data. We investigated the associations between traffic-related air pollution and SES on a small-area level in Strasbourg (France) and assessed the impact of spatial autocorrelation on the results.