Spatial analysis of air pollution and cancer incidence rates in Haifa Bay, Israel

Eitan, Ori; Yuval, .; Barchana, Micha; Dubnov, Jonathan; Linn, Shai; Carmel, Yohay; Broday, David M.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.031

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“…The term "cancer cluster" is defined as a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time, which is largely due to cancer-causing chemicals (USCDC, 2013). Cancer clusters have become a global phenomenon since 1960 and have been reported in developed countries such as United States, Israel and Italy (Robinson, 2002;Kingsley et al, 2007;Bilancia and Fedespina, 2009;Eitan et al, 2010;Goodman et al, 2012). China's cancer villages and cancer clusters in farming villages, emerged in the 1980s, went through a rapid increase in the 1990s, and the trend continues to increase after 2000 (Yu and Zhang, 2009).…”

Section: Pollution Related Health Risks In Food Production Basesmentioning

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Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China

Lü

Shi

Wang

et al. 2015

Environment International

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Tieyu. 2015. Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V.This version available http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/509736/ NERC has developed NORA to enable users to access research outputs wholly or partially funded by NERC. Copyright and other rights for material on this site are retained by the rights owners. Users should read the terms and conditions of use of this material at http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/policies.html#access NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Environment International. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Environment International, 77. 5-15. 10.1016International, 77. 5-15. 10. /j.envint.2014 www.elsevier.com/ Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. Impacts of Soil and Water Pollution on Food Safety and Health Risks in China AbstractEnvironmental pollution and food safety are two of the most important issues of our time. Soil and water pollution, in particular, have historically impacted on food safety which represents an important threat to human health. Nowhere has that situation been more complex and challenging than in China, where a combination of pollution and an increasing food safety risk have affected a large part of the population. Water scarcity, pesticide over-application, and chemical pollutants are considered to be the most important factors impacting on food safety in China. Inadequate quantity and quality of surface water resources in China have led to the long-term use of waste-water irrigation to fulfill the water requirements for agricultural production. In some regions this has caused serious agricultural land and food pollution, especially for heavy metals. It is important, therefore, that issues threatening food safety such as combined pesticide residues and heavy metal pollution are addressed to reduce risks to human health. The increasing negative effects on food safety from water and soil pollution have put more people at risk of carcinogenic diseases, potentially contributing to 'cancer villages' which appear to correlate strongly with the main food producing areas. Currently in China, food safety policies are not integrated with soil and water pollution management policies. Here, a comprehensive map of both soil and water pollution threats to food safety in China is presented and integrated policies addressing soil and water pollution for achieving food safety are suggested to provide a holistic approach.

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Section: Pollution Related Health Risks In Food Production Basesmentioning

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Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China

Lü

Shi

Wang

et al. 2015

Environment International

892

318

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“…Sans et al reports that their “ study was undertaken in response to concerns of a local pressure group based [⋯] about an alleged cluster of cancer, especially of the larynx, and leukaemia among children [⋯] there was also concern about several deaths among teachers and pupils at the nearby comprehensive school”. In 11 other studies, concern of the population is not mentioned, but the authors justified their study with references to an overincidence of cancers or mortality observed in the area by previous investigation [4–6, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 26, 28, 31]. …”

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“…The industries involved in the studies are highly heterogeneous and usually have been operating since several decades before the study period, with areas sometimes industrialized since the 19th century. Six studies were on refineries [6, 16, 17, 26, 28], including one multicenter study in the United Kingdom [14], and 3 on petrochemical plants [15, 27], including one multicenter study in Louisiana [7]. Larger sites gather a variety of different industries.…”

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A Review of the Epidemiological Methods Used to Investigate the Health Impacts of Air Pollution around Major Industrial Areas

Pascal

Bidondo

et al. 2013

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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We performed a literature review to investigate how epidemiological studies have been used to assess the health consequences of living in the vicinity of industries. 77 papers on the chronic effects of air pollution around major industrial areas were reviewed. Major health themes were cancers (27 studies), morbidity (25 studies), mortality (7 studies), and birth outcome (7 studies). Only 3 studies investigated mental health. While studies were available from many different countries, a majority of papers came from the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain. Several studies were motivated by concerns from the population or by previous observations of an overincidence of cases. Geographical ecological designs were largely used for studying cancer and mortality, including statistical designs to quantify a relationship between health indicators and exposure. Morbidity was frequently investigated through cross-sectional surveys on the respiratory health of children. Few multicenter studies were performed. In a majority of papers, exposed areas were defined based on the distance to the industry and were located from <2 km to >20 km from the plants. Improving the exposure assessment would be an asset to future studies. Criteria to include industries in multicenter studies should be defined.

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“…In addition, a typical characteristic of health outcome at the fine geographical sale is the spatial autocorrelation in local concentrations (Chalkias et al 2013;Goovaerts et al 2015). Several studies have demonstrated the role of spatial autocorrelation in explaining the geography of cancer prevalence associated with environmental pollution (Eitan et al 2010;Muir et al 2004;Sundmacher and Busse 2011). Some cases also find that spatial autocorrelation has a significant influence on the relationships between area level socioeconomic variables and cancer mortality (Sridharan et al 2007).…”

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Area Deprivation and Liver Cancer Prevalence in Shenzhen, China: A Spatial Approach Based on Social Indicators

Wang

Tan

et al. 2016

Soc Indic Res

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Cancer has become an alarming threat to human health and well-being worldwide. Examining the social determinants of cancer prevalence should effectively inform the practices and strategies on cancer treatment and prevention. However, rather few studies have conducted in this regard for developing countries. This paper attempts to characterize the association between area deprivation and liver cancer prevalence using a case of Shenzhen, China. Data from 2009 to 2011 provided by Shenzhen's Health Information Center are used to calculate the incidence rate of liver cancer at district level. An area deprivation index (ADI) at district level is established by integrating 13 indicators of 5 domains (income, employment, education, housing and demography). The weight for each indicator is determined by two typical subjective methods (AHP and fuzzy AHP) and two common objective methods (Entropy and Coefficient Variation). Quantitative comparisons indicate that the four methods are highly consistent though they assign different weight to the indicators. Spatial lag regression identifies significantly positive linear relationships between ADIs and liver cancer incidence rate from 2009 and 2010. It suggests that greater possibility of liver cancer prevalence would be expected in districts of higher social deprivation. The results also denote that the obtained relationships are insensitive to weight determination method and temporal dimension. Our study demonstrates that spatial autocorrelation should be incorporated for better understanding the association between area deprivation and liver cancer prevalence at district level. This paper provides some new insights into social indicators research.

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Spatial analysis of air pollution and cancer incidence rates in Haifa Bay, Israel

Cited by 53 publications

References 51 publications

Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China

Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China

A Review of the Epidemiological Methods Used to Investigate the Health Impacts of Air Pollution around Major Industrial Areas

Area Deprivation and Liver Cancer Prevalence in Shenzhen, China: A Spatial Approach Based on Social Indicators

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