Title |
Statistical air quality predictions for public health surveillance: evaluation and generation of county level metrics of PM2.5for the environmental public health tracking network
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Published in |
International Journal of Health Geographics, March 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1476-072x-12-12 |
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Authors |
Ambarish Vaidyanathan, William Fred Dimmick, Scott R Kegler, Judith R Qualters |
Abstract |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed county level metrics for the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) to characterize potential population exposure to airborne particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM(2.5)). These metrics are based on Federal Reference Method (FRM) air monitor data in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality System (AQS); however, monitor data are limited in space and time. In order to understand air quality in all areas and on days without monitor data, the CDC collaborated with the EPA in the development of hierarchical Bayesian (HB) based predictions of PM(2.5) concentrations. This paper describes the generation and evaluation of HB-based county level estimates of PM(2.5). |
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