Building a United States Data Base: Populations-at-Risk to Environmental Pollution

摘要

A series of collaborative studies on the effects of environmental pollution on health were undertaken. A major study, Populations-at-Risk to Air Pollution (PARAP), was initiated in 1976. In October 1978, this project was extended to consider other environmental hazards and was renamed Populations-at-Risk to Environmental Pollution (PAREP). The PAREP project is divided into three main tasks: (1) creation of an integrated data base containing socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, air pollution levels for several important pollutants, and disease specific mortality statistics for the US on a county basis; (2) determination of populations at risk to various pollutants; and (3) analysis of possible associations between disease specific mortality and pollutant levels, taking into account socioeconomic and demographic variables. (ERA citation 05:012669)