Assignments Week 2
April 9 - Exposure assessment approaches
Harvey Checkoway
Readings:
- Nieuwenhuijsen MJ. Introduction to exposure assessment (Ch 1). In: Nieuwenhuijsen MJ (ed.) Exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 3-20.
- Friessen MC, Davies HW, Teschke K, et al. Impact of the specificity of the exposure metric on exposure-response relationships. Occup Environ Med 2007;18:88-94.
April 11 – Air Pollution health effects
Harvey Checkoway
Readings:
- Miller KA, Siscovick DS, Sheppard L, et al. Long-term exposure to air pollution and incidence of cardiovascular events in women. N Engl J Med 2007;356:447-58.
- Gauderman WJ, Vora H, McConnell R, et al. Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study. Lancet 2007;369:571-7.
- Van Hee VC, Adar SD, Szpiro AA, et al. Exposure to traffic and left ventricular mass and function: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009;179:827-34.