title: [The assessment of disease risk in the proximity of a source of environmental pollution: a review].
abstract: An increasingly common public health problem is the perception that disease incidence has increased or a cluster of disease has occurred in a community. In most cases, a local factor (e.g. the location of a nuclear installation) is hypothesized to be associated with the disease. The paper presents a review of the main statistical methods used to assess disease risk near a putative source of environmental pollution. Both techniques based on counts in area units (e.g. administrative units) and case-control studies are considered.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Statistico, Università di Firenze.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lagazio
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011634:Public Health
vernacular_title: La valutazione del rischio di malattia in presenza di una sorgente di inquinamento ambientale: una rassegna.