CoDa-PhD: Air pollutants and mental health of children in a rural region using compositional spatio-temporal models

08/02/2024

CoDa-PhD Thesis in Statistics 

(UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA, 2024 March 6)

 

Air pollutants and mental health of children in a rural region using compositional spatio-temporal models

by

Anna Mota Bertran



Supervised by
Dr. Marc Saez and Dr. Germà Coenders.
in the  Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Department of Economics

 

Abstract

The results obtained in this thesis show that the mental health (behavioural and development disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, and eating disorders) of children living in rural areas is affected by the composition of atmospheric pollution (PM10, CO2, SO2, O3, and CO) similarly to those living in urban areas.