Air Pollution and Health
Air pollution is a major public health problem, with the World Health organisation linking it to 7 million deaths worldwide each year. However, few epidemiological studies have estimated the impact of air pollution in Scotland. Therefore working with colleagues in Health Protection Scotland and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency we have developed innovative data visualisation and modelling analytics to quantify the extent to which populations who live in areas with higher concentrations exhibit increased levels of respiratory and cardiovascular ill health. Our main findings to date are that air pollution exhibits the strongest relationships with respiratory disease
Researchers
Publications
- A rigorous statistical framework for spatio-temporal pollution prediction and estimation of its long-term impact on health, Biostatistics, 18 (2017).
- Multivariate space-time modelling of multiple air pollutants and their health effects accounting for exposure uncertainty, Statistics in Medicine, 37 (2018).
- A locally adaptive process-convolution model for estimating the health impact of air pollution, Annals of Applied Statistics, 12 (4) (2019)
- Estimating the health impact of air pollution in Scotland, and the resulting benefits of reducing concentrations in city centres, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 29 (2019).
- Quantifying the impact of air pollution on Covid-19 hospitalisation and death rates in Scotland, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 100523 (2022).