- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introductory remarks by the editors
- Contributors
- Plates
- 1 Geographical epidemiology and ecological studies
- 2 Small-area studies: purpose and methods
- 3 Health and the environment: the significance of chemicals and radiation
- 4 Mortality data
- 5 Cancer incidence data for adults
- 6 Cancer incidence data for children
- 7 Congenital anomalies
- 8 Specialized registers
- 9 Population counts in small areas
- 10 Use of routine data in studies of point sources of environmental pollution
- 11 Socio-economic confounding
- 12 Use of record linkage in small-area studies
- 13 Confidentiality
- 14 Practical approaches to disease mapping
- 15 Estimating environmental exposure
- 16 Mapping environmental exposure
- III Statistical methods
- 17 Statistical methods for geographical correlation studies
- 18 Bayesian methods for mapping disease risk
- 19 Statistical methods for analysing point-source exposures
- 20 Some comments on methods investigating disease risk around a point source
- 21 Methods for the assessment of disease clusters
- 22 Environmental epidemiology: a historical perspective
- 23 Guidelines for the investigation of clusters of adverse health events
- 24 Studies of disease clustering: problems of interpretation
- V Case studies
- 25 Childhood leukaemia around the Sellafield nuclear plant
- 26 The epidemic of respiratory cancer associated with erionite fibres in the Cappadocian region of Turkey
- 27 Soya bean as a risk factor for epidemic asthma
- 28 The Seveso accident
- 29 Cancer of the larynx and lung near incinerators of waste solvents and oils in Britain
- 30 A study of geographical correlations in China
- Index
A study of geographical correlations in China
A study of geographical correlations in China
- Chapter:
- (p.368) 30 A study of geographical correlations in China
- Source:
- Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology
- Author(s):
R. Peto
J. Chen
T. C. Campbell
J. Li
J. Boreham
Z. Feng
L. Youngman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter describes a geographical correlation study involving age-standardized mortality rates from almost 100 separate causes or groups of causes in sixty-five rural counties in China, plus a representative survey of almost 300 characteristics of the populations in each of these counties. The study may be used either directly or indirectly for medical research. This study's direct value is as a source of correlations between diseases, between diseases and factors that might affect those diseases, or between one factor or another. Its indirect value is as a source of statistical information that can be used to develop an overall description of some recent large developments in preventive medicine in China.
Keywords: geographical correlation study, geographical variations, China, medicine, mortality rates
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introductory remarks by the editors
- Contributors
- Plates
- 1 Geographical epidemiology and ecological studies
- 2 Small-area studies: purpose and methods
- 3 Health and the environment: the significance of chemicals and radiation
- 4 Mortality data
- 5 Cancer incidence data for adults
- 6 Cancer incidence data for children
- 7 Congenital anomalies
- 8 Specialized registers
- 9 Population counts in small areas
- 10 Use of routine data in studies of point sources of environmental pollution
- 11 Socio-economic confounding
- 12 Use of record linkage in small-area studies
- 13 Confidentiality
- 14 Practical approaches to disease mapping
- 15 Estimating environmental exposure
- 16 Mapping environmental exposure
- III Statistical methods
- 17 Statistical methods for geographical correlation studies
- 18 Bayesian methods for mapping disease risk
- 19 Statistical methods for analysing point-source exposures
- 20 Some comments on methods investigating disease risk around a point source
- 21 Methods for the assessment of disease clusters
- 22 Environmental epidemiology: a historical perspective
- 23 Guidelines for the investigation of clusters of adverse health events
- 24 Studies of disease clustering: problems of interpretation
- V Case studies
- 25 Childhood leukaemia around the Sellafield nuclear plant
- 26 The epidemic of respiratory cancer associated with erionite fibres in the Cappadocian region of Turkey
- 27 Soya bean as a risk factor for epidemic asthma
- 28 The Seveso accident
- 29 Cancer of the larynx and lung near incinerators of waste solvents and oils in Britain
- 30 A study of geographical correlations in China
- Index
