Impact/Purpose:

We propose statistical models for estimating gains on environmental health outcome indicators at a national scale, such as the number of adverse health events prevented by regulation.

Description:

Despite increasingly stringent national and local air quality regulations in the last three decades, adverse health effects associated with ambient exposure to air pollution persist. Not surprisingly, regulators, regulated industries, and the public are looking for evidence of the gains in public health that have followed the implementation of costly regulatory policies.

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2008 Progress Report

2009 Progress Report

Final Progress Report

Record Details:

Record Type:PROJECT( ABSTRACT )

Start Date:07/01/2007

Completion Date:09/30/2010

Record ID: 187704

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Role :OWNER

Organization Name :JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Mailing Address :3400 N Charles St

Citation :Baltimore

State :MD

Zip Code :21218

Project Information:

Approach :

We will use the example of reduction of PM as the PM National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) had been implemented across the last two decades. To start, we plan to assess the chronology of the implementation of the NAAQS for PM10 and the corresponding attainment and non-attainment status for all the U.S. counties for the period 1987-2006 (Aim 1). Then we propose to develop: 1) environmental indicators: predictions of county-specific, regional, and national long-term PM trends attributable to regulation accounting for changes in population demographics, industrial activities, and energy demand (Aim 2); 2) outcome indicators: estimates of cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between long-term trends in PM exposure and mortality (morbidity) accounting for individual and area level confounders (Aim 3); and 3) environmental health outcome indicators: estimates of the total reduction of adverse health outcomes prevented by regulation.

Cost :$500,000.00

Research Component :Air Quality and Air Toxics

Approach :

We will use the example of reduction of PM as the PM National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) had been implemented across the last two decades. To start, we plan to assess the chronology of the implementation of the NAAQS for PM10 and the corresponding attainment and non-attainment status for all the U.S. counties for the period 1987-2006 (Aim 1). Then we propose to develop: 1) environmental indicators: predictions of county-specific, regional, and national long-term PM trends attributable to regulation accounting for changes in population demographics, industrial activities, and energy demand (Aim 2); 2) outcome indicators: estimates of cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between long-term trends in PM exposure and mortality (morbidity) accounting for individual and area level confounders (Aim 3); and 3) environmental health outcome indicators: estimates of the total reduction of adverse health outcomes prevented by regulation.

Cost :$500,000.00

Research Component :Health Effects

Project IDs:

ID Code :R833622

Project type :EPA Grant