AIR POLLUTION

Primary Source of Funding: Environmental Protection Agency
Total Project Period: October 1995 – September 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, PhD
Description: This study will evaluate the relationship between ambient air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality among members of Northern and Southern California Kaiser Permanente.

Division of Research Principal Investigator: Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, PhD
Primary Source of Funding: Air Resources Board
Total Project Period: June 2000 – April 2003
Description: This study will use the results of the Kaiser Permanente South Coast Air Quality Management District Study of Particulate Air Pollution and Cardiopulmonary Hospitalizations to model the economic consequences of air pollution exposure.

Primary Source of Funding: American Lung Association
Total Project Period: December 2000 – November 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, PhD
Description: This study will examine how exposure to air pollution in the Sacramento and Fresno areas is associated with asthma hospitalizations. Modification of this association by prior illness will be examined.

Primary Source of Funding: California Air Resources Board
Total Project Period: November 1997 – February 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, PhD
Description: This study will examine the association of particulate matter air pollution morbidity among Kaiser Permanente members in the California Central Valley.