Frankenberg Elizabeth, McKee Douglas, Thomas Duncan
Department of Sociology, UCLA, Box 951551, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Demography. 2005 Feb;42(1):109-29. doi: 10.1353/dem.2005.0004.
We combined data from a population-based longitudinal survey with satellite measures of aerosol levels to assess the impact of smoke from forest fires that blanketed the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in late 1997 on adult health. To account for unobserved differences between haze and nonhaze areas, we compared changes in the health of individual respondents. Between 1993 and 1997, individuals who were exposed to haze experienced greater increases in difficulty with activities of daily living than did their counterparts in nonhaze areas. The results for respiratory and general health, although more complicated to interpret, suggest that haze had a negative impact on these dimensions of health.
我们将一项基于人群的纵向调查数据与气溶胶水平的卫星测量数据相结合，以评估1997年末笼罩印度尼西亚加里曼丹岛和苏门答腊岛的森林火灾烟雾对成年人健康的影响。为了考虑雾霾区和非雾霾区之间未观察到的差异，我们比较了个体受访者健康状况的变化。1993年至1997年期间，暴露于雾霾中的个体在日常生活活动方面的困难增加幅度大于非雾霾区的同龄人。呼吸健康和总体健康方面的结果虽然更难解释，但表明雾霾对这些健康维度有负面影响。
