World Health Organization : Year 1997 ; World Health Organization, Global and Integrated Environmental Health, No. 97.11: Linkage Methods for Environment and Health Analysis Technical Guidelines

By Carlos Corvalan

Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
PREFACE The Health and Environment Analysis for Decision-making (HEADLAMP) project is aimed at improving information support for environmental health policies, and at making information on the local and national health unpacts of environmental hazards available to decision-makers, environmental health professionals and the community. It combines methodologies in environmental epidemiology. human exposure assessment and environment sciences to produce data, analyze them and convert them into information that can be understood, interpreted and acted upon by those responsible for environmental health protection, Important elements are methods for linkaze of health and environment data, the use of environmental health indicators to quantify and monitor the local situation. and the inte~retation and translation of resulting information into the decision-making process.

Table of Contents
Contents page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v I. Statistical Issues in Linkage Analysis of Grouped Environment and Health Data M. Nurminen & T Nurminen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 2. The Ecological Method: Linkage Failures and Bias Corrections M.Nurminen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 3 The Use of Time Series Analysis in Envirormental Epidemiology M.Nurminen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 3 4. Methodological Issues in Using Epidemiological Studies for Health Risk Analysis M. N~~rmine&n C. Conmalan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 9 5. Using Geographical Information Systems to Link Environment and Health Data D.Briggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125