Grantee Research Project Results
2012 Progress Report: The Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis of Major Metropolitan Areas
EPA Grant Number: R834894Title: The Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis of Major Metropolitan Areas
Investigators: Dominici, Francesca , Pope, Clive Arden , Dockery, Douglas W. , Ezzati, Majid
Institution: Harvard University , Imperial College , The Johns Hopkins University , Brigham Young University
Current Institution: Harvard University , Brigham Young University , Imperial College
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2013 (Extended to June 30, 2014)
Project Period Covered by this Report: July 1, 2011 through June 30,2012
Project Amount: $300,000
RFA: Exploring New Air Pollution Health Effects Links in Existing Datasets (2010) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Air Quality and Air Toxics , Air
Objective:
Over the past few decades, there have been substantial and measurable improvements in ambient air quality in the United States (U.S.). There also have been improvements in population survival, primarily as a result of decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, although the change in life expectancy has been highly variable across U.S. counties. Given the differential changes in air pollution and life expectancy, we propose to conduct analyses that will directly estimate the benefits of lower air pollution on survival, adjusting for temporal trends in other key predictors of mortality. The proposed study brings together an experienced multi-disciplinary team of investigators with the objective of determining quantitatively the impacts of trends in selected criteria pollutants on cause-specific mortality and life expectancy in a population-based study. Our specific aims are:
Progress Summary:
Future Activities:
In the second year, we plan to continue to work on methodological development geared toward multiple pollutant analyses and methods for causal inference; we also plan to extend the work in Correia, et al., to multiple pollutants.
Journal Articles on this Report : 8 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
Other project views: | All 44 publications | 32 publications in selected types | All 32 journal articles |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Life expectancy, PM2.5, trends, confoundingProgress and Final Reports:
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