HEALTH INDEXES OF THE ADVERSE-EFFECTS OF AIR-POLLUTION - THE QUESTION OF COHERENCE
HEALTH INDEXES OF THE ADVERSE-EFFECTS OF AIR-POLLUTION - THE QUESTION OF COHERENCE
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DOI：
10.1016/s0013-9351(05)80040-4
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发表时间：
1992-12-01
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
BATES, DV
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作者：
BATES, DV
本次交流是由于观察到有关空气污染与不良健康影响的论文的作者很少讨论健康指数之间的相互关系或检查他们自己的发现与其他相关指数的关系而促成的。此评论适用于当前作者撰写的论文，也适用于其他作者撰写的论文。在最近的文献中，至少有 11 种不同的健康不良影响指数——正如皇帝对莫扎特所说的那样，“音符太多了。”自 1980 年以来，我已发表了 44 篇关于该主题的论文，其中有两篇例外。这些论文被选择来描述所研究的健康结果的范围。我的目的是检验不同指数之间必要或可能的相互关系。我无意从内在力量的角度批评个别论文，也无意尝试区分污染物的不同组合；这个问题在最后讨论。
This communication has been prompted by the observation that authors of papers relating air pollution to adverse health effects very rarely discuss the interrelationships between health indices or examine their own finding in relation to other related indices. This comment applies to papers written by the present author as much as to the others. In the recent literature, there are at least 11 different indices of adverse health effects--as the Emperor said to Mozart," there are too many notes." I have taken 44 papers on this topic published, with two exceptions, since 1980. These have been selected to describe the range of health outcomes studied. My intention is to examine the necessary, or possible, interrelationships between different indices. I do not intend to critique individual papers from the point of view of their internal strength, nor, initially, to try to distinguish between different combinations of pollutants; this question is discussed at the end.