Compare birth outcomes for residences upwind and downwind of same road
Author: Andrew Larkin
Affiliation: Oregon State University, College of Health
Principal Investigator: Perry Hystad
Summary
This github repository contains the scripts used to compare birth outcomes between maternal neighbors upwind/downwind of the same high-traffic road
Repository Structure
Files are divided into five folders, with each folder corresponding to a unique stage of the study
- birth records - preprocess birth cohort records
- wind metrics - calculate number of hours residences were downwind from high-traffic roads.
- building and tree shielding - estimate how much buildings and trees shielded maternal residences from roads.
- matching - pair upwind/downwind neighbors on opposite sides of the same road.
- statistical analysis - linear and logistic regression models to estimate impacts of living downwind on birth outcomes
External Links
- Publication - High Traffic Roads and Adverse Birth Outcomes: Comparing Births Upwind and Downwind of the Same Road
- Funding - Health Effects Institute, Contract 4970-RFA18-1/20-4-2
- Texas Roadway Inventory Annual Data - https://www.txdot.gov/data-maps/roadway-inventory.html
- Microsoft Bing Building Footprints - https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
- Building Parcels - https://tnris.org/stratmap/land-parcels/
- Wind Vectors - https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5
- Core Logic - https://www.corelogic.com/
Related Publications
- HEI. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Selected Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution [Internet]. Health Effects Institute. 2022
- Willis MD, Schrank D, Xu C, Harris L, Ritz BR, Hill EL, et al. A population-based cohort study of traffic congestion and infant growth using connected vehicle data. Sci Adv. 2022 Oct 28;8(43):eabp8281