Public health and air pollution in Asia (PAPA) - a forum for further development with new scopes and participants

Pre-Conference Workshop 6 - abstractpostprintThe 2010 Joint Conference of International Society of Exposure Science & International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISES-ISEE 2010), Seoul, Korea, 28 August-1 September 2010

A pilot study to elucidate and validate public health-related environmental effect estimates from statistical modelling of daily health outcome counts

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Caesarean section rate in England and Wales: Caesarean section rates in Hong Kong

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Will screening mammography in the east do more harm than good?

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Reduction in both seasonal mortality and longer term mortality trends following restrictions on the sulphur content of fuel oil in Hong Kong (Abstract)

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Mass breast screening is highly inefficient [1]

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Temperature as a modifier of the effects of fine particulate matter on acute mortality in Hong Kong

Interactions between particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and temperature on mortality have not been well studied, and results are difficult to synthesize. We aimed to assess modification of temperature on the association between PM2.5 and cause-specific mortality by stratifying temperature into low, medium, and high stratum in Hong Kong, using data from 1999 to 2011. The mortality effects of PM2.5 were stronger in low temperature stratum than those in high. The excess risk (%) per 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 at lag 0–1 in low temperature stratum were 0.94% (95% confidence interval: 0.65, 1.24) for all natural, 0.88% (0.38, 1.37) for cardiovascular, and 1.15% (0.51, 1.79) for respiratory mortality. We found statistically significant interaction of PM2.5 and temperature between low and high temperature stratum for all natural mortality. Our results suggested that temperature might modify mortality effects of PM2.5 in Hong Kong.postprin

Who is more vulnerable to death from extremely cold temperatures? A case-only approach in Hong Kong with a temperate climate

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Lifestyle-modified mortality associated with air pollution: a time-series study

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Effect of lifestyle factors on risk of mortality associated with influenza in elderly people

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