Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study
Mary Abed Al Ahad, Urška Demšar, Frank Sullivan, Hill Kulu, Linda Gough · 2024
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Mary Abed Al Ahad and co-authors link sixteen years of air pollution exposure to hospital admissions across Scotland, in a 2024 cohort study. Most earlier work counted deaths rather than admissions. Effects on mental, behavioral, and infectious disease admissions were rarely examined. Individual records from a national longitudinal study were linked to pollution data.
Long-term exposure was tracked person by person. Admissions were split into all-cause and cause-specific groups. The design spans a decade and a half of follow-up. Hospital burden is what health systems actually budget for. Planners gain admission-based numbers for clean-air policy. The study widens pollution science beyond mortality. Scottish data offer a whole-population view few countries can match.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mary Abed Al Ahad, Urška Demšar, Frank Sullivan, Hill Kulu, Linda Gough |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |