Date of Award

1-1-2023

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Erin Bell

Committee Members

Pauline Mendola, Tse-Chuan Yang, Tabassum Insaf

Subject Categories

Epidemiology

Abstract

The body of public health literature related to air pollution epidemiology is extensive. Similarly, the body of literature related to social epidemiology has also expanded greatly in recent years. While studies in these sub-disciplines of epidemiology sometimes seek to control for variables more commonly studied in one or the other, fewer studies report on their combined effects. Studies which do attempt to summarize how the combined air pollution burden and contextual sociodemographic burden differentially effect health outcomes beyond their individual effects could be beneficial in understanding links between the environment and certain health outcomes such as childhood asthma. The proposed work is novel in that while many studies of asthma and the environment have focused on outdoor or sociodemographic exposure indicators, fewer studies have linked data from the indoor and outdoor environment with sociodemographic data to explore interrelationships between these factors. In the work that follows, Chapter 1 provides a more detailed background for the studies and analyses conducted in Chapters 2, 3, and 4. Chapter 5 summarizes the findings collectively and suggests additional analyses that could be done. In addition, the analyses in Chapters 3 and 4 study focus on areas of NYS excluding NYC, large parts of which are rural and which have been studied less frequently.

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