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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONAL EXPOSURE AND AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS OF PARTICULATE MATTER, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MORTALITY STUDIES
Citation:
Mage, D., L. Wallace, AND T. Buckley. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONAL EXPOSURE AND AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS OF PARTICULATE MATTER, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MORTALITY STUDIES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-95/077 (NTIS PB95225504).
Description:
It is established that personally monitored particulate matter (PM) is poorly correlated with ambient concentrations of PM. his observation is inconsistent with epidemiology studies relating ambient PM to mortality. his paper reviews in depth the relationships between reasons for low correlations between them, and the implications for interpretation of health effect studies relating mortality to ambient PM concentrations. his investigation shows that although ambient PM provides a poor predictor of an individual's personal PM, it explains much of the variability for a community's mean personal PM.