tailieunhanh - APHEIS- Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in Europe

The effect of HNC on air quality is measured using hourly air pollution records from monitoring stations. Pollution levels are compared before and after the restrictions for five major pollutants with levels in previous years acting as a comparison group to control for seasonal variation. The analysis controls for possible confounding factors by restricting the sample to a relatively narrow time window around the implementation of HNC and by using a regression discontinuity design. Across pollutants and specifications there is no evidence that the program has improved air quality. There is evidence that weekend and late night air pollution increased relative to weekdays, consistent with intertemporal substitution. | APHEIS Air Pollution and Health a European Information System Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in Europe Scientific report 1999-2000 DG SANCO G 2 Pollution-related diseases programme Veille Sanitaire Contributors Coordinators Sylvia Medina Institut de Veille Sanitaire Saint-Maurice France Antoni Plasència Institut Municipal de Salut Pública Barcelona Spain Advisory groups Exposure assessment Hans-Guido Mucke head WHO collaborating Centre Federal Environmental Agency Berlin Germany Emile De Saeger co-head Joint Research Centre Environment Institute Ispra Italy Francesco Forastiere Agenzia di Sanità Pubblica Lazio Rome Italy Janusz Swiatczak National Institute of Hygiene Warsaw Poland Epidemiology Klea Katsouyanni head University of Athens Medical School Athens Greece Ross Anderson co-head St George s Hospital Medical School London United Kingdom Ferran Ballester Escuela Valenciana de Estudios para la Salud Valencia Spain Anna Paldy National Public Health Centre Budapest Hungary Statistics Joel Schwartz head Harvard School of Public Health Boston USA Alain Le Tertre Institut de Veille Sanitaire Saint-Maurice France Richard Atkinson St George s Hospital Medical School London United Kingdom Marc Saez Universitat de Girona Girona Spain Giota Touloumi University of Athens Medical School Athens Greece Public Health Lucia Artazcoz head Institut Municipal de Salut Pública Barcelona Spain Philippe Quénel Institut de Veille Sanitaire Saint-Maurice France Pat Goodman Luke Clancy St James Hospital Dublin Ireland Bertil Forsberg Umea University Umea Sweden Mercedes Martinez Servicio de Sanidad Ambiental Consejeria de Salut Pública de la Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid Madrid Spain Health Impact Assessment Michal Krzyzanowski head WHO-ECEH Bonn Germany Emilia Maria Niciu Institute of Public Health Bucharest Roumania Ayana Goren Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv Israel Peter Otorepec Institute of Public Health Ljubljana Republic of Slovenia Antonio Daponte Escuela .