PATY: Pollution and the Young: Combined studies of respiratory health of children and air pollution

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0012

Key words (English)

Environmental Protection; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Safety

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLK4-CT-2002-02544

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.4 Environment and health

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Universität Basel
Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
Abteilung Umwelt und Gesundheit

Abstract (English)

Uncertainties remain about the impacts of air pollution on the young. By bringing together a large number of comparable data, which have already been collected, this study offers a cost-effective route to improved assessments of the effects of long term impacts of air pollution. This study will assemble data from 12 countries, a combined study size of over 60,000 children from 140 areas. The health and exposure data will be subject to careful quality control checks and then multi-level statistical analyses conducted to provide estimates of the effects ofPM10, SO2 and NO2, independently and jointly, on respiratory symptoms and on pulmonary function. Risk modification by significant emission source type, interaction with socio-economic status, and with indicators of atopy will be assessed as well as the relative contributions of indoor and outdoor air.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
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CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 03.0012