 How Do Exposure Estimation Errors Affect Estimated Exposure-Response Relations?Louis Anthony Cox
Chapter Chapter 16 in Quantitative Risk Analysis of Air Pollution Health Effects, 2021, pp 449-474 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Associations between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure concentrations and a wide variety of undesirable outcomes are routinely reported. Adverse outcomes associated with PM2.5 range from autism, auto theft, and COVID-19 mortality to elderly mortality, suicide, and violent crime. Many influential articles argue that reducing National Ambient Air Quality Standards for PM2.5 is desirable to reduce these outcomes; of late, it has become fashionable to explicitly interpret estimated statistical associations causally, implying that reducing PM2.5 would reduce associated adverse outcomes, typically by making untested modeling assumptions to justify interpreting association as causation. Yet, other studies have found that reducing particulate pollution dramatically, by as much as 70% and dozens of micrograms per cubic meter, has not detectably affected all-cause mortality rates even after decades, despite strong, statistically significant positive exposure concentration-response (C-R) associations between them (Zigler and Dominici 2014; see also Chap. 17 ). Date: 2021 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-030-57358-4_16 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57358-4_16 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in International Series in Operations Research & Management Science from Springer |
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