Lagazio C
Dipartimento Statistico, Università di Firenze.
Epidemiol Prev. 1995 Jun;19(63):168-74.
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.
一个日益常见的公共卫生问题是，人们认为疾病发病率有所上升，或者在某个社区出现了疾病聚集现象。在大多数情况下，人们会假设某个局部因素（如核设施的位置）与该疾病有关。本文对用于评估假定环境污染源附近疾病风险的主要统计方法进行了综述。文中考虑了基于面积单位（如行政单位）计数的技术以及病例对照研究。
