This study is a part of a wider research called Climate and Health being carried out by the Institute of Biometeorology of the Italian National Research Council in Florence and the Interdepartmental Centre of Bioclimatology of the University of Florence.The effects on health of environmental parameters have been widely studied in recent years. A particular attention has been paid to people living in urban areas, where a high percentage of the population spend most of their time. Many environmental parameters, such as meteorological variables, air pollution, pollens and spores, are involved and the dynamics of their interrelationships are very complicated. During the last 20 years of the XX century, many epidemiological studies showed that environmental parameters have statistically significant effects on an increase mortality in particular and to a lesser extent morbidity. Those for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases have been the ones most studied. In the present preliminary study, for the period 1998-2002, HA, rather than mortality, have been considered in order to find daily environmental discomfort conditions over which there is an increase in the probability of hospital admissions (HA) for a specific disease.
A Preliminary Study On The Relationships Between Urban Environmental Parameters And Hospital Admissions For Cardiovascular Diseases / Morabito, M; Crisci, A; Cecchi, L; Orlandini, S.. - In: NEWSLETTER. - ISSN 2070-2582. - STAMPA. - 51:(2003), pp. 6-10.
A Preliminary Study On The Relationships Between Urban Environmental Parameters And Hospital Admissions For Cardiovascular Diseases.
ORLANDINI, SIMONE
2003
Abstract
This study is a part of a wider research called Climate and Health being carried out by the Institute of Biometeorology of the Italian National Research Council in Florence and the Interdepartmental Centre of Bioclimatology of the University of Florence.The effects on health of environmental parameters have been widely studied in recent years. A particular attention has been paid to people living in urban areas, where a high percentage of the population spend most of their time. Many environmental parameters, such as meteorological variables, air pollution, pollens and spores, are involved and the dynamics of their interrelationships are very complicated. During the last 20 years of the XX century, many epidemiological studies showed that environmental parameters have statistically significant effects on an increase mortality in particular and to a lesser extent morbidity. Those for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases have been the ones most studied. In the present preliminary study, for the period 1998-2002, HA, rather than mortality, have been considered in order to find daily environmental discomfort conditions over which there is an increase in the probability of hospital admissions (HA) for a specific disease.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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