An Aggregate Public Health Indicator to Represent the Impact of Multiple Environmental Exposures
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An aggregate public health indicator to represent the impact of multiple environmental exposures.
We present a framework to aggregate divergent health impacts associated with different types of environmental exposures, such as air pollution, residential noise, and large technologic risks. From the policy maker's point of view, there are at least three good reasons for this type of aggregation: comparative risk evaluation (for example, setting priorities), evaluation of the efficiency of env...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1044-3983
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199909000-00030