Review Article
A Review of the Epidemiological Methods Used to Investigate the
Health Impacts of Air Pollution around Major Industrial Areas
Table 1
Summary of the papers in the literature review.
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Country |
Total number of papers | Health outcome (several health outcomes may be described in 1 paper) | Cancer | Morbidity | Biomonitoring | Mortality | Birth outcome | Mental health |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Italy | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Spain | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Taiwan | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Israel | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | United States | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Canada | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sweden | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | France | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Countries with 1 study only | Finland, Lithuania | Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India, Romania, South Africa | Korea | | | |
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Total number of studies (several studies may be described in 1 paper) | 27 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
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