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SUBMITTER: Kang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6617003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Dayun D Jang Yujin Y Choi Hyunho H Hwang Seung-Sik SS Koo Younseo Y Choi Jungsoon J
International journal of environmental research and public health 20190614 12
Previous studies have shown an association between mortality and ambient air pollution in South Korea. However, these studies may have been subject to bias, as they lacked adjustment for spatio-temporal structures. This paper addresses this research gap by examining the association between air pollution and cause-specific mortality in South Korea between 2012 and 2015 using a two-stage Bayesian spatio-temporal model. We used 2012-2014 mortality and air pollution data for parameter estimation (i. ...[more]