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Air Pollution and Mortality in Latin America The Role of Education
(LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2008) O'Neill, Marie S.; Bell, Michelle L.; Ranjit, Nalini; Cifuentes, Luis A.; Loomis, Dana; Gouveia, Nelson; Borja Aburto, Victor H.
Background: People with less education in Europe, Asia, and the United States are at higher risk of mortality associated with daily and longer-term air pollution exposure. We examined whether educational level modified associations between mortality and ambient particulate pollution (PM10) in Latin America, using several timescales.
Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: A case-crossover study in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City, Mexico
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2008) Bell, Michelle L.; O'Neill, Marie S.; Ranjit, Nalini; Borja Aburto, Victor H.; Cifuentes, Luis A.; Gouveia, Nelson C.
Background Factors affecting vulnerability to heat-related mortality are not well understood. Identifying susceptible populations is of particular importance given anticipated rising temperatures from climatic change.