Response to “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: methodological errors must be avoided”

We thank Morfeld and Erren for their interest in our recent publication on “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project” (Héroux et al. 2015). Morfeld and Erren claim that there are potential problems with the statistical approach used in our pap...

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Published in:International Journal of Public Health
Main Authors: Héroux, Marie-Eve, Brunekreef, Bert, Ross Anderson, H., Cohen, Aaron, Francesco Forastiere, Hurley, Fintan, Katsouyanni, Klea, Krewsky, Daniel, Krzyzanowski, Michal, Mills, Inga, Künzli, Nino, Querol, Xavier, Ostro, Bart, Walton, Heather
Other Authors: Querol, Xavier 0000-0002-6549-9899
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2016
Subjects:
Air pollution
Health impact
Greenland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/219752
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-016-0808-x
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Summary:We thank Morfeld and Erren for their interest in our recent publication on “Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project” (Héroux et al. 2015). Morfeld and Erren claim that there are potential problems with the statistical approach used in our paper to measure the impact on mortality from air pollution. In fact, they state that “Greenland showed that a calculation based on RR estimates, as performed in the EU research project, does estimate excess cases numbers—but it does not estimate the number of premature cases or etiological cases” (Greenland 1999). Peer reviewed

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