Effects of dust events on daily outpatient counts
Dust events are common air pollution events in parts of the world with arid,semi-arid,or desert areas.There are few researches on the acute effects of dust events.The aim of this study was to assess the association between daily outpatient counts and dust events.The study was done using daily outpatient counts of each clinical department in Z Hospital in Loess Plateau where dust events are the most frequent in China.The survey period was between 1 April,2012 and 30 June,2012.The dust events were judged by Air Pollution Index(API),and API are announced in the local environmental monitoring center.Temperature,and the relative humidity was used at the same time as confounding variables.The information,released at the meteorological center,was obtained from the website.The results suggest that the increase of outpatient counts by the dust events was not found,but the increase of the outpatient numbers to the pediatrics cannot be denied.In addition,it was revealed that the influence of weather factors such as temperature or the humidity was bigger than the dust particle.
Haosheng Mu Kazunari Onishi Shinji Otani Takenobu Hosoda Mikizo Okamoto Youichi Kurozawa
Division of Health Administration and Promotion,Faculty of Medicine,Tottori University,Japan Japan Environment & Childrens Study The Center of Tottori Unit of the JECS Tottori University Hospital
国际会议
The 11th International Conference on Development of Drylands(第十一届国际干旱区大会)
北京
英文
807-810
2013-03-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）