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SUBMITTER: Sheffield P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6643957 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sheffield Perry P Roy Angkana A Wong Kendrew K Trasande Leonardo L
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20110504 5
There has been little research to date on the linkages between air pollution and infectious respiratory illness in children, and the resulting health care costs. In this study we used data on air pollutants and national hospitalizations to study the relationship between fine particulate air pollution and health care charges and costs for the treatment of bronchiolitis, an acute viral infection of the lungs. We found that as the average exposure to fine particulate matter over the lifetime of an ...[more]