• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11281-5
Corpus ID: 23915805

Effect of air-pollution control on death rates in Dublin, Ireland: an intervention study

@article{Clancy2002EffectOA,
  title={Effect of air-pollution control on death rates in Dublin, Ireland: an intervention study},
  author={L. Clancy and P. Goodman and H. Sinclair and D. Dockery},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2002},
  volume={360},
  pages={1210-1214}
}

• L. Clancy, P. Goodman, +1 author D. Dockery
• Published 2002
• Medicine, Environmental Science
• The Lancet

BACKGROUND Particulate air pollution episodes have been associated with increased daily death. [...] Key Method The effect of the ban on age-standardised death rates was estimated with an interrupted time-series analysis, adjusting for weather, respiratory epidemics, and death rates in the rest of Ireland. FINDINGS Average black smoke concentrations in Dublin declined by 35.6 mg/m(3) (70%) after the ban on coal sales.Expand