Christchurch

Daily mortality in relation to weather and air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Authors:

Hales, S., Salmond, C., Town, I.C., Kjellstrom, T. and Woodward, A.

Year:

2000

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between the daily number of deaths, weather and ambient air pollution. METHOD: An ecological study. We assembled daily data for the city of Christchurch, New Zealand (population 300,000) from June 1988 to December 1993. We used Poisson regression models, controlling for season using a parametric method. RESULTS: