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List of Studies linking air pollution, poverty and health:

Bobak M, Leon DA. 1999. The effect of air pollution on infant mortality appears specific for respiratory causes in the postneonatal period. Epidemiology 10:666–670.

Brunekreef B, Holgate ST. 2002. Air pollution and health. Lancet 360:1233–1242.

Dockery DW, Pope CA III, Xu X, Spengler JD, Ware JH, Fay ME, et al. 1993. An association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. Cities. N Engl J Med 329:1753–1759.

Gouveia N, Fletcher T. Time series analysis of air pollution and mortality: effects by cause, age and socioeconomic status. J Epidemiol Community Health 2000;54:750–5.

Gwynn RC, Thurston GD. 2001. The burden of air pollution: impacts among racial minorities. Environ Health Perspect 109(suppl 4):501–506.

Institute of Medicine. 1999. Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs. Washington, DC:National Academy Press.

Jerrett M, Burnett R, Brook J, Kanaroglou P, Giovis C, Finkelstein N, Hutchison B. 2004. Do socioeconomic characteristics modify the short term association between air pollution and mortality? Evidence from a zonal time series in Hamilton, Canada. J Epidemiol Community Health: 58:31–40

Luginaah I, Jerrett M, Elliott S, et al. Health profiles of Hamilton: spatial characteristics of neighbourhoods for health investigations. GeoJournal 2001;53:135–47.

Martins M H, Fatigati F, Ve´spoli T, Martins , Pereira L, Martins M A, Saldiva P, Braga A. 2004. Influence of socioeconomic conditions on air pollution: adverse health effects in elderly people: an analysis of six regions in Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil. J Epidemiol Community Health ;58:41–46.

O'Neill M, Jerrett M, Kawachi I,1 Levy J, Cohen A, Gouveia N, Wilkinson P, Fletcher T, Cifuentes L, and

Schwartz J, with input from participants of the Workshop on Air Pollution and Socioeconomic Conditions. 2003. Environmental Health Perspectives Vol 111 :1861-1870.

Ponce A, Hoggatt K, Wilhelm M, and Ritz B. 2005. Preterm Birth: The Interaction of Traffic-related Air Pollution with Economic Hardship in Los Angeles Neighborhoods.American Journal of Epidemiology, 162: 140-148.

Sexton K, Gong H Jr, Bailar JC, Ford JG, Gold DR, Lambert WE, et al. 1993. Air pollution health risks: do class and race matter? Toxicol Ind Health 9:843–878.

Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Dockery DW. 2000a. Airborne particles are a risk factor for hospital admissions for heart and lung disease. Environ Health Perspect 108:1071–1077.

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