Environmental and social influences on child health

a) SAVIAH Study

SAVIAH Study was an EU-funded multi-centre study assessing the use of small area methods in air pollution epidemiology. The study was carried out in four centres: Prague (the Czech Republic), Poznan (Poland), Huddersfield (UK) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

The main objective of the study was to evaluate methodologies in the fields of small area epidemiology, geographical information systems (GIS), air pollution modelling and biostatistics. GIS can be implemented relatively easily, and they provide a good tool to study enviromental exposures. Analyses of Czech and Polish data found that area-based and individually measured exposures were associated with respiratory symptoms, and that results depended on level of exposure.  

b) Analysis of birth outcomes in the Czech Republic

Series of studies investigating the effect of air pollution on birth characteristics and infant mortality in the Czech Republic around the time of the political change in 1989 and in the early 1990s:

- Air pollution and infant mortality

- Air pollution and birth weight

- Socioeconomic factors and infant mortality and birth weight

- Socioeconomic variation in birth seasonality

 

c) Health of preschool and school age children

- Socioeconomic factors and childrens' growth of preschool children

- Air pollution and childrens' growth

 
 

 

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