Environmental contaminants and health in early life : studies on air pollution and drinking water quality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Environmental pollution is damaging to human health worldwide. Yet the links between contaminants and health outcomes are difficult to quantify. This dissertation aims to uncover associations between contamination and health in two settings: Dhaka, Bangladesh, and California, USA. In Chapter 1, I find that ambient particulate matter air pollution in Dhaka is associated with child pneumonia, and that this association is dependent on the source composition of particulate matter. In Chapters 2 and 3, I investigate whether the presence of contaminants in drinking water during pregnancy increases risk of preterm birth in California. Using a sibling-matched design, I find that high levels of nitrate in drinking water more than double the odds of early preterm birth (20-31 weeks). Using a survival analysis framework, I show that modest associations between arsenic in drinking water and preterm birth vary throughout gestation. Finally, Chapter 4 combines machine learning and community-based surveys to characterize exposure to nitrate and 1,2,3-trichloropropane, and emerging contaminant, among domestic well users in California's Central Valley. In each chapter, I aim to improve understanding of environmental health risks and provide methodological contributions to overcome existing research barriers.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Sherris, Allison Rabinovitch |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Fendorf, Scott |
| Degree supervisor | Luby, Stephen |
| Thesis advisor | Fendorf, Scott |
| Thesis advisor | Luby, Stephen |
| Thesis advisor | Baiocchi, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Shaw, Gary |
| Degree committee member | Baiocchi, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Shaw, Gary |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Allison Rabinovitch Sherris. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fn558wk9785 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Allison Rabinovitch Sherris
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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