Identificación de factores medioambientales en cáncer infantil:protocolo de estudio de investigación
- Rebeca Ramis
- Javier García-Pérez
- Diana Gómez-Barroso
- Carlos Ojeda Sánchez
- Alejandro Domínguez-Castillo
- Elena Pardo Romaguera
- Ibon Tamayo-Uria
ISSN: 1135-6286
Year of publication: 2022
Volume: 30
Issue: 2
Pages: 12-22
Type: Article
More publications in: Boletín epidemiológico semanal: Vigilancia epidemiológica
Abstract
The health effects associated to exposure to environmental factors are difficult to study, nonetheless the greater availability of data, the development of statistical methods of spatial analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) have allowed to progress in this direction. As regards of data, the availability of public records and data bases make it possible to identify emission sources. Childhood cancer is the leading cause of infant mortality due to disease in Spain, where more than 1,100 cases are diagnosed each year in children between 0 and 14 years of age. The causes of these pathologies are mostly unknown and the role of exposure to environmental risk factors is one of the most studied hypotheses at present. The objective of this work is the presentation of a protocol for a research study designed to identify environmental risk factors in childhood cancer using spatial analysis and GIS tools, and environmental information from public access databases. The environmental factors studied are: industrial pollution, urban pollution, traffic pollution, proximity to crops that can be treated with pesticides, socio-economic index and proximity to urban green spaces.