TY - JOUR
T1 - Respiratory morbidity in hospitalized Bedouins residing near an industrial park
AU - Kordysh, Ella
AU - Karakis, Isabella
AU - Belmaker, Ilana
AU - Vardi, Hilel
AU - Bolotin, Arkady
AU - Sarov, Batia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Israeli Ministry of Health under Contract 89838. Requests for reprints should be sent to Professor Batia Sarov, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - The residents' concern about exposure to a chemical industrial park (IP), which includes the national toxic industrial waste site, prompted the authors to initiate this ecological study on the association between residing near the IP and being hospitalized for respiratory ailments in the local Bedouin population. The population was stratified by sex, age, and locality type (permanent settlements and traditional tribal settlements). The distance and wind direction from the IP were used as exposure indicators. Hospitalization data were obtained from the regional medical center. Increased hospitalization rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and all respiratory diseases were found to be associated with residential proximity to the IP. Attributable risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was 34.2% in male members of the traditional tribal settlements and 49.3% in female members of the permanent settlements.
AB - The residents' concern about exposure to a chemical industrial park (IP), which includes the national toxic industrial waste site, prompted the authors to initiate this ecological study on the association between residing near the IP and being hospitalized for respiratory ailments in the local Bedouin population. The population was stratified by sex, age, and locality type (permanent settlements and traditional tribal settlements). The distance and wind direction from the IP were used as exposure indicators. Hospitalization data were obtained from the regional medical center. Increased hospitalization rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and all respiratory diseases were found to be associated with residential proximity to the IP. Attributable risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was 34.2% in male members of the traditional tribal settlements and 49.3% in female members of the permanent settlements.
KW - Bedouin
KW - Ecological study
KW - Environmental chemical exposure
KW - Respiratory disease
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U2 - 10.3200/AEOH.60.3.147-155
DO - 10.3200/AEOH.60.3.147-155
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751194836
SN - 1933-8244
VL - 60
SP - 147
EP - 155
JO - Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
JF - Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
IS - 3
ER -
